Mussorgsky’s alcoholism caught up with him before he could finish Khovanshchina. At the time of his death in 1881 ...

Classic’ may not be quite the right word for this scary, messy film – it’s about forms of rage that don’t ...

In 1985, Helen Garner picked up the Oxford Anthology of Australian Literature in a bookshop in Melbourne and examined its index to confirm that she was not in it. On finding she was right, she felt ...

Admirers of Morris the revolutionary have shared his uncertainties. George Bernard Shaw thought Morris’s late-life addiction ...

John XXIII, the pope who initiated the council in 1962, described it as an aggiornamento, a ‘bringing up to date’, an attempt ...

The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a ...

Colombia produced a record 2600 tons of cocaine in 2023 and at least a third of it passed through Ecuador – ...

Director and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz on adapting Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk for the big screen, in conversation with Gaby Wood, chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation and a regular ...

In the more fortunate and vastly different condition of life under civil government, the ideal of independence had become a ...