I thought,’ White wrote in his autobiographical masterpiece The Farewell Symphony (1997), ‘that never had a ...

In Social Topography of a Rural Community Steve Hindle describes the lives of 780 inhabitants of 176 households in ...

One way of thinking about fascism is to see it as historically specific: a reactionary mass movement produced by the economic and social chaos that engulfed Europe after the First World War. Fascism ...

When a man tips his hat on the street, we take it as a friendly greeting. That’s what it means to read visual signs ‘iconographically’, Erwin Panofsky writes in his classic essay ‘Iconography and ...

Malak Mattar’s monumental 2024 black-and-white painting inspired by Guernica is entitled No Words (… for Gaza).

Detective novels offer a means of rehearsing the fearful reality of death, and in this sense the conventions of ...

The Royal Museum of the Belgian Congo became the Royal Museum of Central Africa after Brussels choked back its fury ...

The United States was born in war and has waged a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley ...

There are no rules about what constitutes a crisis. Calls can be about an assault that took place days earlier or ...

I wanted to understand the figure of Riefenstahl in her development,’ Andres Veiel says, ‘without exculpating ...

Ebola is a frightening disease. It spreads from person to person through contact with bodily fluids, and symptoms include vomiting, diarrhoea and bleeding. It has an average fatality rate of 50 per ...

You may remember Palantir as the company that was given access to all of NHS England’s data in November 2023, in order to create a Federated Data Platform. The cost was £330 million – the largest NHS ...