The pyramids are so central to the modern view of Egypt, and to Egyptian tourism, that it is hard not to speak ...

Months before the Trumpist onslaught on higher education, US universities were rushing to prohibit protest encampments. Why do some ramshackle tents on lawns present such a threat to authority – as ...

The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a ...

America’s official chief diplomat is the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, but so far his activities have been fairly limited. Instead, the role of principal US emissary is currently filled by the ...

Colombia produced a record 2600 tons of cocaine in 2023 and at least a third of it passed through Ecuador – ...

You did not need to have met Albert Barnes for him to take against you. In late 1927 Ford Madox Ford, then in New ...

T.S. Eliot claimed that he learned his prose style from reading F.H. Bradley, and the poet wrote his PhD on the English philosopher at Harvard. Bradley’s life was remarkably unremarkable, as he spent ...

The version of Khovanshchina that Mussorgsky left behind when he died was as messy as the history it depicts. He began working on the opera in 1872, the bicentennial of Peter the Great’s birth. For ...

In the more fortunate and vastly different condition of life under civil government, the ideal of independence had become a ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In the stories of Franz Kafka we find the fantastical wearing the most ordinary, realist dress. Though haunted by ...