Elena Vanden Abeele investigates the functions, symbols and hidden meanings behind the parsol in the 19th century.
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…
By Sophie Chiari and Mickaël Popelard In this two part quiz, the editors of new book Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition…
The 2017 Eurovision Song Contest was won this year by Portugal’s entry, with a singer called Salvador Sobral, who sang…