Global Progress Action was in London at the end of last month, filling Methodist Central Hall with politicians and ...

The main road west from El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, was abandoned by travellers during the war in the ...

The mummy portraits are stunning. Their production began around 30-40 ce, sixty or so years after the defeat of ...

Jonathan Rée explains the ways in which Camus’s philosophy differed from that of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, with whom he’s often associated, and why his most famous novel, L’Étranger, ...

John Heartfield was forced to leave Germany in 1933. Even before the Nazis put him on their hit list, his art had caused controversy. In 1928 he designed the cover for a book about the mores of the ...

The environmental history of European empire doesn’t end with decolonisation. The quasi-colonial schemes of the ...

Mid-Century Modern would have been called ‘Contemporary’ when used of commercial work, the ‘International Style’ in its luxury forms and ‘Brutalism’ at its avant-garde edge. Such terms tell us more ...

What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big, blinding event: kaboom! Vulcanologists, seismologists, geologists and ...

The film frame is both Walter Murch’s canvas and his found object. In his editing suite, whether mechanical or ...

Among​ the poems Edward Thomas drafted in 1916, shortly before he was posted to France, was ‘As the team’s head-brass’. The poet, seated in the boughs of a fallen elm, watches a ploughman at work ...

On many occasions, Lewis courted beatings and arrest in order to bring attention to the racial mistreatment that was pervasive in the Jim Crow South. In Selma, Alabama, on 7 March 1965, he led ...