Yet his adoptive family is so warm and loving that the lack, the ‘chasm’, torments him only intermittently. It’s surely ...

Despite making some progress on green initiatives, Lula still seems determined to use fossil resources to drive development, ...

Michel Barnier and Macronism.

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Tish Murtha, 13 Kenilworth Road, from the series Youth Unemployment, 1981. © Ella Murtha, all rights reserved. To stay with ...

There has been one serious attempt to come to grips with the problems posed by Golding’s novels: in the February number of Twentieth Century for 1960 Ian Gregor & Mark Kirkard-Weekes published an ...

A blue-walled room blitzed by scraps. Some are in frames, others displayed under glass like pinned butterflies. A collection of ephemera, fragments and parentheses: Untitled (Presumed Self-Portrait); ...

To read Robert Musil is to sense an approaching catastrophe. His narratives spiral downward from the daylight world of bourgeois conventions into the night of madness, the negativity of disorder, ...

Soviet architecture generally only had ‘stars’ in its first and last years. At the start, the utopian generation of Melnikov, Ginzburg, the Vesnin brothers, with their workers’ clubs and palaces of ...