Unlike his predecessors, Britain’s prime minister is a fairly honest stagnation-ist

With no way out of his war with Iran, he is increasingly obsessed with monuments to himself

June 11, 2025 – “Emma has been called a detective novel, and with good reason: the fun of first reading it consists largely in scrutinizing the suspects and trying to figure out, not whodunnit, but wh...

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Anita Brookner was a prolific writer and a master of both comedy and tragedy. Over the course of 28 years, she wrote 24 novels, winning the Booker Prize in 1984 with Hotel du Lac. But where should you...

Louis Armstrong in Ghana A multinational exhibition and music exchange commemorating the 70th anniversary of Louis Armstrong’s concert tour to Accra Opening Weekend October 1 – 3 1956 was a... Read mo...

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Morandi tests the limits of art history

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Trump is uncharacteristically deaf to voter fears over the technology

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