Bad magic attracts bad money. Brion Gysin had a preternatural instinct for the fluctuations of the art market, ...

This concept of subjecthood soon applied in England’s infant colonies, including in America, where, after the Revolution, it ...

Self-Help from the Middle Ages raises some provocative questions about historical figures. Was Thomas Aquinas truly ...

In early modern England, ‘people were surrounded by feathers all the time,’ as ‘the gentry flew their hawks, servants plucked ...

In M. John Harrison’s​ short story ‘The Crisis’, first published in 2017, the world has been invaded by aliens that look like ...

In 1848, the US seized the northern half of Mexico, from California to New Mexico, and imposed American law and ...

As a British wartime child living near secret things and sites, I can remember easily respecting the instruction: ...

My friend Jawad Ali, a Palestinian American lawyer, was at his daughter’s graduation last month when he got a ...

If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of ...

French journalist and academic of Algerian descent. Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic was published in paperback in May 2026.

The football games we obsess over are the ones that tell a story and this World Cup has been full of stories. I made ...

We chase away the dark. Since the industrial revolution humanity has been progressively shortening and lighting up the night. Cheap LED lights now turn suburban gardens into fairgrounds and industrial ...