At the first interval in the Berlin Staatsoper’s new production of La Vestale, the man to my right turned to me ...
‘An Invite to Eternity’ begins with ‘dark obscurity’, ‘sad non-identity’ and hellish visionary scenes (‘Where stones will ...
Pablo Scheffer joins Tom to explore the transition from Roman to British to Anglo-Saxon England between the sixth and eighth centuries. They discuss why none of the changes that took place was ...
In 2018, Penguin published Giorgio Bassani’s six-part cycle The Novel of Ferrara, translated by Jamie McKendrick, as a single volume. A regular customer at the bookshop where I work recently showed me ...
Lula raised the budget for school lunches, improved access to higher education and free medication, and increased ...
They see themselves as resurrecting the barricades of 1968, and reclaim ‘La Marseillaise’ when they march. If one of the ...
Fredric Jameson seemed to me to have read absolutely everything. He was the very antithesis of the intellectual type ...
As a lazy writer and an even lazier translator, I have found myself without much work in recent years. Five years ago, I was quite confident that AI couldn’t replace human translators. Now, I am ...
It can be hard to imagine a world in which people justified slavery, yet for most of recorded history enslavement ...
He also directed the homeland security secretary, Markwayne Mullin, to make a list of ‘confirmed’ citizens eligible to vote ...
Among John Clare’s drawings of ‘pootys’ (snail shells) and birds is a doodle of his imagined tombstone. It bears the inscription: ‘HERE Rest the HOPES and Ashes of JOHN CLARE.’ The masons missed the ...
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