Notebooks are snapshots from our writers, reflecting on current affairs and underappreciated aspects of culture and history.
At a time of mounting geopolitical tensions, Scandinavian leaders have sent the world a powerful message: that it is possible for countries, and their leaders, to have close and tr..
J.M.W Turner lived in an age of extraordinary mechanical advances. He was ever alive to the opportunities new technologies afforded the arts.
Even more than America, Italy has always seen the car as a symbol of freedom and glamour, an assumption that has had perilous consequences.
When the country’s past is examined from a deeper historical perspective, it is unsurprising that Indonesia's leaders have been wary of any kind of global alignment.
German voters face very different problems to those of a century ago. One surefire way to lose their trust is for politicians to offer dubious history lessons.
The Arab-Israeli ceasefires of 1949 were a missed opportunity for peace in the Middle East. Buoyed by Israel's triumph in the 1948 War, Israeli governments failed to build a durabl..
In Lynch’s universe both Bedford Falls and Pottersville, Oz and Kansas exist alongside one another, always capable of bleeding into each other.
For several years, revisionist powers have challenged the post-Cold War order. Now, as the second Trump administration takes office, the United States and other status quo powers a..
Half a century on, Bob Dylan's pared-down masterpiece still stands apart in his catalogue, its extraordinary vitality born of the complex and competing psychological forces it some..
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