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 call from his sister in the West Bank. ‘She was crying, almost hysterical,’ he said, as ...

Anne Carson’s collections of poetry include Autobiography of Red, Men in the Off Hours, Nox and The Beauty of the Husband, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her many translations of classical works ...

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

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

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

Nigel Farage is resigning as an MP and standing again for his seat in Clacton in a by-election, a move intended to stymie the ongoing parliamentary investigation into a £5 million donation he received ...

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 ...

William Hazlitt wrote of ‘The Rape of the Lock’ that ‘you hardly know whether to laugh or weep’, and in this episode Seamus and Mark discuss why Alexander Pope's mock epic masterpiece is at once the ...