Six weeks after the start of the Second World War, the British government lifted the colour bar on military ...

The pieces in Wrong Norma are not formally linked but interesting connections among them can be found in the idea ...

The plum tree’s dying branch by branch, A candelabra going dark. Leaves ticket down, no avalanche, A gangrene inches through ...

Ara Darzi released his report on the English National Health Service last month. To no one’s surprise, he finds ...

The foul-mouthed, mean-spirited peasant Marcolf was one of the most well-known literary characters in late medieval Europe. He appears in many poetic works from the 9th century onwards, but it’s in ...

Derrida opened it by reading out the ‘famous passage’ that was to serve as the ‘matrix’ for the entire series: Kant’s attempt ...

In the later decades of the last century, a new wave of ideas broke across the study of literature throughout the world. Known simply as ‘theory’, it ranged from structuralism to feminism, semiotics ...

Many report still feeling like outsiders in the Netherlands. This legacy of the unspoken and unspeakable – of repression, in ...

It’s the final day of the Republican National Convention. Andrew O’Hagan and Deborah Friedell dissect Trump’s marathon acceptance speech and ask what a second term could look like.

Blair never owned a mobile phone while prime minister and barely knew how to send an email. At the same time, he ...

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On Friday, 27 September, we felt the whole of Beirut shake. A huge plume of smoke was visible across the city.