COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE (December 24, 2024): The latest issue features Britain’s history in 50 monuments; Queen Mary – Not so contrary after all; Why you should give your dog a bone; A hill farmer’s diary and the first bubble hats…
Times Literary Supplement (December 11, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The tragic Queen of France’ – The legend of Marie Antoinette; William Dalrymple’s Indian empire; Mary Beard – A night at the museum; The coffee house scientist; What Kindle readers want…
Times Literary Supplement (December 4, 2024): The latest issue features ‘HIs Other Country’ – The James Baldwin revival continues in the 100th anniversary year of his birth. A trickle of biographies has become a flood, and the causes for which he stood, racial equality and gay rights, speak to the times.
Record-label scouts chase ‘strange compositions’
A video game challenges the history of Argentina
By Mia Levitin
The far right thrived in 2024, and the erosion of liberal democracy is the story of the century so far. It didn’t have to be this way By Cas Muddle
Want to imagine the city of the future? Try Milton Keynes Jen Stout
Times Literary Supplement (November 27, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Mutti Knows Best?’ – Angela Merkel’s triumph and tragedy; Gaughin’s uncensored thoughts; Gladiator II; C.S. Lewis’s Oxford and “The Magic Mountain” at 100…
Times Literary Supplement (November 20, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Uncommon Reader’ – Virginia Woolf in literary tradition..
Virginia Woolf as reader, writer and literary inspiration By Sophie Oliver
The unravelling of Vivien Leigh’s marriage amid her mental health breakdown By Vanessa Curtis
History as an ideological battleground By Niall Ferguson
How the world’s most famous thinker fell out of fashion By Mark Sinclair
Times Literary Supplement (November 13, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Books of the Year’ – TLS writers choose their favourites…
A cellist is haunted by the history of her instrument By Norma Clarke
Frank Auerbach and his visions of north London By Rod Mengham
A spectacular production of Offenbach’s opéra fantastique By Paul Griffiths
The National Gallery (November 8, 2024): The National GalleryEpisode 1 of ‘200 Years of the National Gallery’. Travel back through 200 extraordinary years of our history – from our origins in a private house in Pall Mall to our current home in bustling Trafalgar Square. ‘200 Years of Your National Gallery’ is a three-part documentary miniseries.
Stream for free exclusively on YouTube. Through the eyes of the staff, past and present, who care for the nation’s collection, and with rarely seen and newly digitised archive footage and images, we go exclusively behind-the-scenes to see the role the Gallery plays at the heart of cultural life of the UK.
The Republican candidate has already damaged American democracy and the wider liberal order. Worse is to come by Francis Fukuyama\
My friendship with a robin works magic on my health
Times Literary Supplement (October 30, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Scare Stories’ – On modern horror. Asked why he liked horror films, or terror films as he preferred to call them, Kingsley Amis wrote: “like Mark Twain on a dissimilar occasion, I have an answer to that: I don’t know”. He viewed horror as purely “harmless” entertainment. That explanation might satisfy teenage addicts, but moralists, psychologists and literary critics are inclined to examine the bloody entrails of the genre to divine deeper truths.
Taking the British Revolution out of the Restoration’s shadow By Jonathan Fitzgibbons
The decades before horror became respectable By Mark Storey
How Mary Oliver ‘encourages us to believe’ By Rory Waterman
An Australian vision of the eco-apocalypse By Tom Seymour Evans
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