Despite the ban, more than 160,000 copies of La Question circulated in France, Algeria and beyond. In a preface, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote that Alleg had revealed the brutalising and inhumane structure ...
On 7 November 1965, Henry Solomons, the Labour MP for the constituency, died after a short illness. He had won the marginal ...
Some parishioners morphed into willing Protestants; defiant Catholics – recusants – refused to attend services; other ...
Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty ...
Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand ...
Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in ...
Despite his nostalgia for monarchical institutions, de Gaulle keenly admired Clemenceau, a staunch republican. In his War ...
Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World, recently on display at London’s Michael Werner Gallery, does not try to cover all ...
He was born in 1874 and spent his first eleven years in San Francisco, where the Frost family managed on very little, ...
All post-liberals have at one point or another declared themselves anti-libertarian. Why is it, then, that once in ...
L ate in Claire-Louise Bennett’s novel Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, the unnamed protagonist goes to Montevideo to participate in a ‘panel discussion about violent scenes from movies’. She had hesitated to ...
Anne Higonnet is a professor of art history at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the queen of excess, who teaches us the lessons of history with shepherdess costumes and lace ruffles.
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