J.H. Prynne has always seemed to me to represent the real potential of poetry, as an art that can encompass ...

Britain’s nuclear subservience to the US dates from the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement ( MDA) between Washington and London: ...

It isn’t controversial to expect courts to be politically neutral when deciding cases that have great political ...

In Nayatt School, Spalding Gray played a ‘pedantic schoolteacher’ and the psychiatrist from The Cocktail ...

Mary Shelley signed off her introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein by bidding her ‘hideous progeny go forth and prosper’. In this episode of The Man Behind the Curtain, Tom McCarthy and ...

The careers of Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and Maria Cosway required constant, delicate calibration to keep the balance between personal reputation, artistic success and the need to earn a living, ...

Seamus and Mark begin their new series by looking at the playful but often troubling treatment of desire in Marlowe's Hero and Leander, a poem that contains one of the most explicit depictions of sex ...

The Kristóf who emerges from the sources was, like the twins in the Notebook trilogy, a person divided in two.

Like many of my students from South Lebanon and the Shia quarters of Beirut, he is renting in a ‘safe’ area of the capital.

So far as we know, true symbolic language is unique to the human species. The question of how we alone came to ...