Billy Lee Brammer’s The Gay Place is a masterpiece, providing an insight into the imaginative world of LBJ’s America.
In Rembrandt’s ruffs, past and present are woven into linen and lace.
Derelict bandstands are a symbol of a lost age of Victorian optimism. It’s time to recapture their zeal in improving civic life.
The digital revolution has given pressed Cuban protesters confidence to shake off complacency. That ought to make the regime afraid for its survival.
Netflix show Jane the Virgin’s deep engagement with Latin American and Spanish literature and the telenovela form makes it one of the most intellectually interesting TV series in recent years.
Chamonix’s Sea of Ice, deep in the Alpes profondes, once a magnificent spectacle, has become a mere torrent of greyish stones and detritus.
Sycophancy, like most political diseases, is not new. The ancient Egyptians developed it to a fine art and its aura persists to this day.
Space entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk are recapturing the bold and individualistic spirit of America’s first astronauts, the Mercury Seven.
Unfairly maligned by critics, the third edition of the Matrix series is the true heir to cyberpunk and a tonic to the cold sheen of Holywood Sci-Fi.
Brocade paper is the seventeenth-century German invention which still has the power to dazzle.
Ancient criticisms of over-educated elitists can show us how to heal our divided democracies.
Overlooked in his own lifetime, Giles Gilbert Scott’s architectural skill in uniting the past and the present make his buildings unforgettable.
Sophie Scholl paid the ultimate price for her defiance of Nazi evil. The actions of her and her compatriots are remembered to this day.
The histories of R.J. Unstead brought the past to life for millions of school children. His name and his story-telling talents deserve reviving.
Early twentieth-century poet Edna St Vincent Millay’s laconic verse is an antidote to modern pop’s cult of heartbreak.
Was it a crown or a ship that inspired the ancient inventor’s discovery?
The early pioneers of AI music were derided and feared. Does it deserve a revival?
Within this international drink is a microcosm of all the movements and ambitions and exchanges of mankind.
What connects a cannabis plant with the French Revolution? The little Italian town of Carmagnola – where the manufacture of cannabis hemp became local myth and an international phenomenon.
Today’s free thinkers, frustrated by censorship from above and below, would do well to remember the ways of Machiavelli.
The summer solstice celebrations are not simply pagan fancies. They embody the centuries-old spirit of the season.
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