During the curtain call for the closing performance of Verdi’s Il trovatore at the Royal Opera House on 19 July, ...

Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks ...

Preliminary data published in 2021 strongly suggested that testing positive for Covid was linked to a traumatic ...

What does it mean for a jug to be a jug? Or for any thing to be called a ‘thing’? In his 1950 lecture ‘Das Ding’, Heidegger attempts to cajole his audience away from their everyday way of seeing the ...

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I met the great Iranian novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in 2006. We had the same publisher, and through them he sent me a message inviting me to tea at the Azadi Hotel in northern Tehran. At one point he ...

When challenged to justify past investment in slavery – or current investments in, say, fossil fuel extraction or ...

Tulathimutte’s characters have no choice but to elevate masturbation to an art because no one else is willing to touch them.

His problem is that, from his mother’s side, he has inherited a fertile imagination and a refined intellect. He is no coward, ...

But it’s the same ‘morbid symptom’, the way diaries are morbid symptoms. ‘When the symptoms could no longer be contained by ...

Ungodly power, random power, power courses everywhere through Hamlet like fog with an east wind behind it – even ...