Part of the reason for Assad’s rapid collapse is that his international backers – Russia, Iran, Hizbullah – ...
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Kendrick Lamar, who calls himself a ‘certified boogeyman’, is a contemporary Dracula guy, wending his way onto ...
Romania’s Constitutional Court has annulled the first round of the presidential election on 24 November, won by the far-right nationalist candidate Călin Georgescu, with 23 per cent of the vote. The ...
As Elvis’s only child, Lisa Marie Presley was burdened from birth with extraordinary, largely unwanted fame. Before her death in 2023, she spent years as tabloid fodder, less for her sporadic music ...
Studio Ghibli was founded in Tokyo in 1985. Its moving spirit, the writer and director Hayao Miyazaki, is now in his eighties. His latest picture, The Boy and the Heron, won an Oscar this year for ...
In the final episode of their series, Colin and Clare arrive at Muriel Spark, who would never have considered herself a satirist though her writing was as bitingly satirical as any 20th-century ...
Only two daughters of the Tudor dynasty in its three-generation tenure of the English crown experienced the full force of ...
Why do architecture and furniture of a century ago still look new, while clothes, cars and even people appear so ...
In the final episode of Human Conditions, Brent and Adam turn to Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider, a collection of prose with exceptional relevance to contemporary grassroots... Read more about Human ...
The underlying theme for US foreign policy remains elite consensus. In his use of the machinery of American empire ...