– In 1846, the target was continental expansion, not clear how far downwards and upwards, but essentially contiguous ...

Moreover, he has already breached the historic firewall around the far right by using the AfD’s parliamentary backing to pass ...

The Kurdish forces, then, appear to believe that swallowing this bitter pill is the only way to preserve their social base ...

The situation recalled Tom Nairn’s verdict on the Labour administration of Harold Wilson in 1965, which he said had not just ...

One of T.J. Clark’s objectives in The Painting of Modern Life is to make us ‘unlearn our present ease with Impressionism’, and in this he succeeds magnificently.footnote ＊ By raising the issue of the ...

Hermeneutics first. Nick Adams, the protagonist of Hemingway’s short story ‘Big Two-Hearted River’ (1925), is about to go fishing: Nick took it from his hook book, sitting with the rod across his lap.

'Nowadays, national literature doesn’t mean much: the age of world literature is beginning, and everybody should contribute to hasten its advent.’ This was Goethe, of course, talking to Eckermann in ...

Revised transcript of a recorded conversation between Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams – August Bank Holiday, 1959. R.W.: I’m glad that at last we’ve managed to meet. Since The Uses of Literacy ...