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 ...
Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World, recently on display at London’s Michael Werner Gallery, does not try to cover all ...
The Strand, which today has its western limit at Trafalgar Square, was first recorded in the Roman period, as the ...
On 7 November 1965, Henry Solomons, the Labour MP for the constituency, died after a short illness. He had won the marginal ...
Some parishioners morphed into willing Protestants; defiant Catholics – recusants – refused to attend services; other ...
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 ...
L ate ​ in Claire-Louise Bennett’s novel Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, the unnamed protagonist goes to Montevideo to participate in a ‘panel discussion about violent scenes from movies’. She had hesitated to ...
Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status ...
As a backbench opposition MP, Shabana Mahmood called for a ‘general amnesty’ of undocumented workers so they could ‘regularise their status’. Now that she is home secretary, she has proposed the ‘most ...