By Ondrej Beranek and Pavel Tupek 1) Over the past years and decades, various parts of the Islamic world –…
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In James Benning’s film Concord Woods (2014), we watch a replica of Henry David Thoreau’s famous cabin at Walden Pond….
I was standing in a library aisle in the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, my neck craning to…
What’s the artist for in modern Scotland? Curating our accumulated history? Envisioning our possible and impossible futures? Diagnosing the ills…
My new book, Viking Law and Order, paints a rather different picture of Viking Age society from the one we…
The 2017 Eurovision Song Contest was won this year by Portugal’s entry, with a singer called Salvador Sobral, who sang…
Britain has long had a contradictory relationship to movie stardom, as two articles from the fan magazine Picturegoer, both by…
An extract from The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war Britain by Angela Bartie On Sunday 24 August 1947,…
What do you imagine when you think about great Catholic art? Perhaps you call to mind the gilded pages of…
Migration today is an increasingly contentious, even toxic, issue. It is being held responsible for Brexit, the coming to power…