Sebastian Cody explores the challenges of ballet historiography, emphasising the need for rigorous scholarship amidst widespread inaccuracies
At the recent Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Theresa May’s speech turned into the stuff of every presenter’s nightmares, something…
Looking Back at the Russian Revolution 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, which occurred in March and…
What’s the artist for in modern Scotland? Curating our accumulated history? Envisioning our possible and impossible futures? Diagnosing the ills…
CounterText Volume 3.2 (August 2017) is a special issue entitled The Poetic, and contains a contains a wide-ranging interview with…
Marcel Proust once said, “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners…
My new book, Viking Law and Order, paints a rather different picture of Viking Age society from the one we…
It would seem that elements of the Anglosphere have always required a bogey or a multiplicity of bogeys. Perhaps other…
By Sophie Chiari and Mickaël Popelard The second part of our quiz poses another 14 questions on Shakespeare and science. Missed the…
By Nick Hubble Modernism raises questions. On one level, it expresses the personal questions about subjectivity that writers such as…