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Strange waters
Some novels, particularly those of a supernatural ...
Captive markets
In 1854 the fortunes of North Brookfield, Massachu...
Unfinished business
The literature on Reconstruction has long been the...
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A treasure trove of literary and historical tradit...
God, son and void
In Karl Ove Knausgaard’s novel The Morning Star (T...
Everything everywhere
It is hard not to think of André Breton’s writing ...
The man who could do all things
Leon Battista Alberti is one of the most extraordi...
A space between
Wayne McGregor, a resident choreographer at the Ro...
Bergson’s boom and bust
The life of Henri Bergson provides rich material f...
Lost for words
Ellen Jones reviewed Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil’s Ä...
Parlez vous?
Bernard Cerquiglini is a former director of the In...
Better than Barcelona?
The origins of the modern-day Spanish nation do no...
Dreamless sleeps
In the town, no one has a shadow. That is because ...
Holding heads high
One might have assumed that the political thought ...
Seductive melancholy
On the death of his mother, Joachim Sartorius – a ...
Life in the art world
Poor Artists may or may not function as a survival...
Photo-bombing skeletons
Ambush at Still Lake is the seventh collection of ...
On the tracks
Well received on its publication in 1983, David Wh...
Workers’ anthems
Politics in New Zealand and Australia is not going...
Greater than the sum
“Manchester is the south of the north”, writes Jea...