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 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 ...

Emma Hayes has described the difference between men’s and women’s football as cortisol v. dopamine. Under her management between 2012 and 2024, Chelsea won the Women’s Super League seven times, the FA ...

I n her Clarendon Lectures ​ , given at Oxford in 2023 and recently published as Poetry’s Nature (Oxford, £25.99), Susan ...

His was the name on the front cover of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, several issues of which I had recently picked up ...

There’s​ no sign over the door of Palantir’s UK headquarters, an eight-storey neoclassical building in Soho Square. The windows are lined with thick reflective glass. When we tried to take some ...