How has this year been for you?’ a musician friend from the West Bank asked me when we met for the first time ...

Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.

Part of the reason for Assad’s rapid collapse is that his international backers – Russia, Iran, Hizbullah – ...

Donald Trump ’s return as US president can’t match the shock of his ascent in 2016. But it does force a permanent change in historical perspective. In 2020, Joe Biden’s victory was treated by Trump’s ...

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 ...

Brent Hayes Edwards and Adam discuss the ‘ur-text of Black political philosophy’, W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk. Spanning autobiography, history, biography, fiction, music criticism and ...

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 ...

Boulder (2020) and Mammoth, a triptych of novels by the Catalan writer Eva Baltasar, have much in common. They are young, and ...

In no sense was Frank Auerbach a topographical artist. Primrose Hill, Mornington Crescent and the entrance to his ...

There is no doubt of the success of the effect, this slapstick without ridicule, but how has Flaubert managed, throughout the ...

An ocean-going navy is not a workaday public service, like a coastguard or a constabulary. It is a grand project, ...