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

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

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

A s a boy, the Romanian-born artist Avigdor Arikha spent part of the Second World War in a labour camp in western Ukraine, where he was given a small sketchbook and pencil by a sy ...

Gustave Flaubert’s first three novels, Madame Bovary, Salammbô and L’Éducation sentimentale, were all published ...

Global Progress Action was in London at the end of last month, filling Methodist Central Hall with politicians and think tankers of broadly defined ‘progressive’ politics from around the world. On the ...

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

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 ...

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

The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s most autobiographical novel, and the first she published after her identity as a woman was revealed. A ‘dreamscape’ version of her Warwickshire childhood, the ...

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