The pieces in Wrong Norma are not formally linked but interesting connections among them can be found in the idea ...

Ara Darzi released his report on the English National Health Service last month. To no one’s surprise, he finds ...

Derrida opened it by reading out the ‘famous passage’ that was to serve as the ‘matrix’ for the entire series: Kant’s attempt ...

The plum tree’s dying branch by branch, A candelabra going dark. Leaves ticket down, no avalanche, A gangrene inches through ...

The foul-mouthed, mean-spirited peasant Marcolf was one of the most well-known literary characters in late medieval Europe. He appears in many poetic works from the 9th century onwards, but it’s in ...

Many report still feeling like outsiders in the Netherlands. This legacy of the unspoken and unspeakable – of repression, in ...

In the later decades of the last century, a new wave of ideas broke across the study of literature throughout the world. Known simply as ‘theory’, it ranged from structuralism to feminism, semiotics ...

Blair never owned a mobile phone while prime minister and barely knew how to send an email. At the same time, he ...

It’s the final day of the Republican National Convention. Andrew O’Hagan and Deborah Friedell dissect Trump’s marathon acceptance speech and ask what a second term could look like.

Every so often , a periodical comes along that sets the pace for a number of years thanks to the decisiveness of its editorial direction and the quality of its contributions. In 1855 the arrival of a ...

On Friday, 27 September, we felt the whole of Beirut shake. A huge plume of smoke was visible across the city.

Rachel Kushner ’s fourth novel, Creation Lake, shuttles between the story of Sadie Smith, a spy-for-hire tasked with observing Le Moulin, a radical environmentalist commune in rural southwest France, ...