Notebooks are snapshots from our writers, reflecting on current affairs and underappreciated aspects of culture and history.
The Republican calendar crystallised a French dream of rationality and symmetry, which echoes in everything from the geometry of garden design to the metric system.
The playwright was a master craftsman of the stage, yet his knowing intellectualism sometimes got in the way of true understanding.
Moscow is burning through its reserves and staring into a deep domestic abyss. Everyone in Putin’s Russia — from the poorest pensioner to the wealthiest oligarch — is feeling the s..
From a wartime airfield to a landmark of regional development — now under threat — Humberside Airport's story deserves to be better known.
France's rebuilding of its diplomatic credibility after the Franco-Prussian War offers enduring lessons in national resilience.
A peace settlement that divides the old Sudan into three new entities — one recognised state and two de facto polities — would merely extend a decades-long trajectory of geographic..
President Zelensky's stunning political rise promised to combat corruption and bring rapprochement with Russia. His administration is now mired in allegations of war-profiteering.
The history of Argentina suggests that austerity is only politically viable under two conditions. Javier Milei has achieved both.
Pier Paolo Pasolini's vision of the Eternal City was far from an aesthete's fantasy. His Rome was a real place, at once poetic and squalid, which he captured with a cartographer’s ..
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