Near the beginning of the new film “The Aeronauts,” a giant gas-filled balloon called the “Mammoth” departs from London’s Vauxhall Gardens and ascends into the
“The boat,” wrote the philosopher Michel Foucault, “is the greatest reserve of the imagination… In civilisations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place
Jim Ede was born in 1895, the son of a solicitor in South Wales. As a child he was set on becoming an artist. After
Philip Glass, the minimalist American composer, fills opera houses with the same facility as his British ritualistic counterpart, Sir Harrison Birtwhistle empties them. The sell-out
The idea behind John O’Connell’s Bowie’s Books is a truly terrific one; its execution, less so. All the same, there is enough insight and perception
If it weren’t for the antisemitism crisis in Labour, with less than a week to go to the election, I think we could be justified
The Guardian’s Barney Ronay wrote a piece last weekend arguing that Joe Root should be relieved of the England captaincy so that he might return
In San Francisco, on Thanksgiving Day 1976, the original members of The Band performed together for the last time. They were an effortlessly louche cast
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