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 ...

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

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

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

James is joined by journalist Dan Nolan and poet and translator George Szirtes to discuss why Viktor Orbán was finally voted out and the challenges face by the new Hungarian prime minister, Péter ...

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

A week into his second presidential term, Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14186: The Iron Dome for America, calling for ‘a next-generation missile defence shield’. By the time the US National ...

The hollowness of the RN revolution became clear this week, when Marine Le Pen announced she would be standing again ...

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 ...