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How should Big Oil spend big money?
Read moreby Ernesto Bonafé Big Oil faces an existential question: How to spend its very large and, for some, ‘windfall’ or…
Preview: Theory of the Object by Thomas Nail

Enjoy a preview of the first page from Thomas Nail’s new book Theory of the Object. We live in an…
“Flame I Am Assuredly”: Nietzsche on the Gift of Birthdays

That Nietzsche valued his own birthday is known to readers of his correspondence. After his mother appears to forget her…
What is a Sporting Body? (Part 3)

by Holly Thorpe and Joshua Newman Have you read Part 1 and 2? If not, get it here! Part 1…
What is a Sporting Body? (Part 2)

by Holly Thorpe and Joshua Newman Have you read Part 1? If not, get it here! The first issue consists…
What is a Sporting Body? (Part 1)

by Holly Thorpe and Joshua Newman Sport, it seems, is everywhere. It predominates our mediascapes, commands sizeable outlays of public…
The destruction of ‘un- Islamic’ edifices by ISIS and the Taliban

by Shivan Mahendrarajah The Taliban are back in power, ushering in renewed fears of destruction of cultural heritages. Their first…
“Potency is important for a real man”: Viagra-spam and the circulation of gendered discourse (Part 2)

by Mie Birk Jensen Have you read “Potency is important for a real man”: Viagra-spam and the circulation of gendered…
“Potency is important for a real man”: Viagra-spam and the circulation of gendered discourse (Part 1)

by Mie Birk Jensen “Need some love pills? So, why go to your local drugstore? Why waste time and extra…
An extract from “Wasted Innocence: Children and Childhood in Cao Xueqin’s Dream of the Red Chamber”

by Xiaofei Shi and Labao Wang Does Chinese children’s literature have a prehistory? While it is presumptuous to date the…