Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can ...

The ceasefire should mark a pivotal moment rather than a temporary pause, a chance to stop the devastation and create a foundation for enduring justice. As the slow and expensive work of rebuilding ...

When Elfriede Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2004, the committee praised ‘her musical flow of voices and counter-voices’, which ‘reveal the absurdity of society’s clichés and their subjugating ...

Karl Baedeker wrote in his 1868 guide to Venice that when sitting outside the twin cafés of Quadri and Florian in St Mark’s Square, ‘strangers have here to submit to, with the best grace they can, the ...

We ask a lot of some very small fish. Single species are relied on to save entire ecosystems. In December I tried to ...

Tom Johnson joins Malin Hay to discuss the revolution in numeracy and use of numbers in Early Modern England. How did the English go from seeing arithmetic as the province of tradespeople and ...

A t a canteen ​ in Leningrad in December 1941, a man queued for two hours, handed over his ration card, received a bowl of soup and a bowl of porridge, ate the soup and died. A crowd formed around him ...

The question Trump’s opponents want answered is whether he can get away with it. Will his coalition hold, will ...

Anyone who plays an instrument – or has shared a house with a musician – will be familiar with the maddening nature of repetitive practice. Many piano players have bought Charles-Louis Hanon’s The ...

Much of what was great about Chris Jefferies was used to attack him and destroy his reputation when the media, ...

A standard English textbook in China asks students to compose a letter from someone called Li Hua to their British friend Allen, inviting him to a music festival. When the US ban on TikTok briefly ...