The artist Chaim Soutine was obsessed with Rembrandt’s painting of a flayed and headless ox. After managing at the age of ...
The prosperity of Asante, in present-day Ghana, was built in part on abundant deposits of precious metal. The British colony ...
A History of Illustration by D B Dowd ...
The General Strike of 1926 by Jonathan Schneer; The Edge of Revolution: The General Strike That Shook Britain by David ...
The wider circumpolar region is rich in oil, gas, metals and minerals, while thawing ice has increased the navigability of ...
One of the great moments, among many, in Paul Fischer’s new book, The Last Kings of Hollywood, occurs in the twelfth chapter, when Fischer describes a party that took place at Francis Ford Coppola’s ...
Shame Has to Change Sides by Gisèle Pelicot with Judith Perrignon (Translated from French by Natasha Lehrer & Ruth Diver) ...
Baby-making has become ‘a capitalist’s wet dream’, writes journalist Alev Scott in Cash Cow. Although the subject has been much explored by scholars, Scott comes at it a little differently – initially ...
Venice and the Jews by Alexander Lee ...
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In 2720, centuries of population decline in Japan will yield the result of a seemingly ineluctable calculus: the final Japanese child will be born. That is the prediction of Hiroshi Yoshida, a ...
In a letter to his close friend Mary Painter in 1957, James Baldwin recounts how an extended trip to Corsica enabled him ‘to get his private and public lives in something resembling alignment. For ...
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