Four years after the so-called full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it is very hard to disentangle oneself from all the clichés, ...

Whatever else it was, this was protest music. Their early material involved lo-fi drum machines, with vocals fighting through ...

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The recent wave of protests in Iran have generated an extraordinary volume of commentary, much of it framed through familiar but misleading scripts. Some cast the unrest as an imminent revolutionary ...

‘I hate reviewing books’, the young Zbigniew Brzezinski informed a journal editor in 1960, explaining that he found it ‘debilitating intellectually, demoralizing personally and destructive ...

In Mary Gaitskill’s 1997 short story ‘Orchid’, two characters approaching middle age encounter each other on the street in Seattle. Margot is a social worker, Patrick a former actor turned ...

One of the founding documents of Western philosophy deals with the phenomenon of being exempt from punishment. In Plato’s Republic, Glaukon challenges Sokrates by telling a story: there was a shepherd ...

Two decades before US forces kidnapped Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro this weekend, Hugo Chávez had already predicted the approach: Years ago, someone told me: ‘They’re going to end up accusing ...

2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Patti Smith’s debut album Horses, with Robert Mapplethorpe’s black and white cover portrait of the artist posed with her jacket slung over her shoulder, Frank ...