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Tigers between the Great Powers
The fate of the Amur tiger — feared, then hunted and finally protected — is linked to geopolitical change.
Caroline Eden
November 13, 2025
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Wittgenstein’s great silence
The philosopher sought freedom from the bewitchment of language.
Bryan Appleyard
November 12, 2025
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The craft of John le Carré
He was a writer who created his own world, filled with lamplighters and scalphunters, babysitters and pavement artists.
Malcolm Forbes
November 11, 2025
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Modern Islam’s loss of theology
As 'Islam' rose from a personal act of submission to an ideology, it eclipsed the very divinity it sought to serve.
Fitzroy Morrissey
November 10, 2025
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Musica universalis
The eye did not always have primacy over the ear. Humanity once valued spiritual hearing over spiritual seeing.
Derek Turner
November 6, 2025
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Joseph Wright’s age of enlightenment
The English painter captured an emerging world of industry and innovation, discovery and dissemination, against the background of the Industrial Revolution.
Paul Lay
November 5, 2025
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Secret networks behind enemy lines
Britain's intelligence networks of the First and Second World War could not have operated without the vital contributions of female agents.
John Raine
November 3, 2025
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Paul Thomas Anderson at the movies
The American director's latest film is infused with a mass of cinematic culture.
Muriel Zagha
October 31, 2025
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The curious case of corpse killings
Belief in the living dead arose whenever faith wavered and fear reigned supreme.
Katherine Harvey
October 27, 2025