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 ...
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 ...
Shabana Mahmood is in a different situation from previous minority ethnic home secretaries who were accused of ...
I am 22 weeks pregnant. During this pregnancy – my fourth; I have two children already and had a miscarriage in February – I have become unduly superstitious, increasingly preoccupied by the idea of ...
Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status ...
The day before James Watson arrived to deliver the 2013 Michael Davys Lecture in Oxford, I received an email from his personal physician in New York asking me to arrange for him to be seen by ‘one of ...
Your browser does not support the audio element. When the polymorphous writer Ursula K. Le Guin died in 2018, she left behind novels, short stories, poetry, essays ...