Coronavirus has exposed our fear of risk
A crisis, and especially a health crisis, has a way of putting people and states under severe strain. In Britain, we have not yet seen
A crisis, and especially a health crisis, has a way of putting people and states under severe strain. In Britain, we have not yet seen
Jubilee, considered by many to be the ultimate punk film, pissed off a lot of punks. Siouxsie and the Banshees labelled the 1978 apocalyptic satire, “hippy trash”. Adam Ant
Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. Seneca: Letters to Lucilius Unlike
“Picasso didn’t just draw on paper – he tore it, burnt it, and made it three-dimensional. From studies for ‘Guernica’ to a 4.8-metre-wide collage, this
There’s a moment near the end of Strange Hotel (2020) in which the novel’s subject comments “[f]unny, how unbearable I’m finding all of this, considering
Although Wales and Scotland’s encounter in Cardiff’s Principality stadium is postponed until… well, until sometime, neither Wales nor Scotland are in the final reckoning anyway
Oslo is not a city high on most people’s lists of places to visit. But anyone interested in twentieth-century art, and particularly in sculpture, should
In the fifth century B.C., the playwright Sophocles begins “Oedipus Tyrannos” with the title character struggling to identify the cause of a plague striking his
It is coming up on two years since Philip Kerr, author of the Bernie Gunther detective thrillers, died of cancer at the age of 62.
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