Elena Vanden Abeele investigates the functions, symbols and hidden meanings behind the parsol in the 19th century.
by Mie Birk Jensen “Need some love pills? So, why go to your local drugstore? Why waste time and extra…
by Xiaofei Shi and Labao Wang Does Chinese children’s literature have a prehistory? While it is presumptuous to date the…
In this exclusive extract from chapter 6 of The Eurasian Steppe, author and archaeologist Warwick Ball explores the material culture…
In this interview, Christian Long, editor of ReFocus: The Films of Albert Brooks (out now in our series ReFocus: The…
In this interview, John Renard, author of Rumi: A Life in Pictures (out now from the Edinburgh Studies in Islamic…
by Hilan Bensusan Pointing is a thoroughly situated activity. One points at what is somehow around – even when one…
By Marta Kargól Some years ago, I discovered an extraordinary collection of embroidery samples preserved in The Museum Rotterdam. The…
By Christopher Stokes Skylarks, clouds, roses, rivers. What one of my undergraduate students once memorably termed the ‘flowers and s**t’…
By Neil Archer What makes a performance ‘truthful’? In one of my previous professional lives, as an actor, this question…