Tulathimutte’s characters have no choice but to elevate masturbation to an art because no one else is willing to touch them.

I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with ...

The boy and the father, Spike and Jamie (Alfie Williams and Aaron Taylor-Johnson), are preparing for a trip to the mainland, ...

But the flood did severely disrupt the city’s transportation system: Fori Bridge and Lagos Bridge, which connected the east ...

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Chuck Berry’s ‘Maybellene’ recently turned seventy. Recorded on 21 May 1955 in a studio on the South Side ...

Mahmood Mamdani is the Herbert Lehman pro­fessor of government at Columbia University and former director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research in Kampala.

Peter Green’s many books include a Life of Alexander of Macedon, a history of the Hellenistic age, an account of the Sicilian expedition and translations of Homer, Apollonius Rhodius, Catullus, Ovid ...

Marguerite Yourcenar entered the Académie Française in 1981, the first woman to be admitted. Her novel Memoirs of Hadrian, published thirty years earlier, is ‘often considered the best French novel of ...

In his 2015 Winter Lecture, Adam Phillips discusses Freud, Hamlet, Lacan and more in his examination of self-hatred. Read the lecture here.

David Runciman’s acclaimed series of introductions to the most important thinkers and ideas behind modern politics. It’s now part of David’s new weekly podcast, Past Present Future, in which David ...