Part of Rodrigo Paz Pereira’s success in the Bolivian presidential election lies with his choice of running ...

At one point in Kiran Desai’s new novel the heroine, Sonia Shah, sets out to write a journalistic sketch of the Indian kebab, ‘massaged, marinated, oiled, spoiled, pampered, pompous, romantic’, but ...

A version in Scots of a Sumerian hymn to the goddess of love and war, attributed to the priestess Enheduanna of Ur (fl. 2255 BCE), the world’s earliest identifiable author. As well as praising the ...

Announcing the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry last week, won by Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi ...

Jonathan Rée explains the ways in which Camus’s philosophy differed from that of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, ...

Global Progress Action was in London at the end of last month, filling Methodist Central Hall with politicians and ...

On many occasions, Lewis courted beatings and arrest in order to bring attention to the racial mistreatment that was ...

The film frame is both Walter Murch’s canvas and his found object. In his editing suite, whether mechanical or ...

The mummy portraits are stunning. Their production began around 30-40 ce, sixty or so years after the defeat of ...

The main road west from El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, was abandoned by travellers during the war in the ...

What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big ...

A version in Scots of a Sumerian hymn to the goddess of love and war, attributed to the priestess Enheduanna of Ur (fl. 2255 ...