In the late ninth century, an anonymous scribe in Aquitaine compiled a collection of thirty-one Latin poems. Among them is a ...

Frances Tanzer’s innovative and insightful approach to the postwar cultural reinvention of Vienna focuses on artists, ...

“Dreaming has a share in history”, claimed Walter Benjamin in 1927. In the early twentieth century, both Freud and Jung saw dreams as foundational to the emerging discipline of psychoanalysis, while ...

The Danish author Solvej Balle came to fame with According to the Law (1993; 1996 in English): four linked stories about “the raw isolation of humankind”. She then retreated to an isolation of her own ...

This week, Peter Holland treads the boards in Elizabethan London in search of Shakespeare before the Globe; and Muriel Zagha on a captivating tale of cheese-making in the Jura.

In recent decades, critical thinking about the “liveliness” of the natural world has gained momentum. Anthropologists and Indigenous communities have articulated visions of an indivisible world ...

Hard power, soft belief and the future of the West 320pp. Bodley Head. £25. Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska The most revealing moment in The Technological Republic arrives early on. The ...