We can hope that those “formal truth-telling processes” now under way in several capital cities will deliver long-denied ...

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Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism is “premised on the conviction that we cannot see impressionism clearly” without grasping the impact on the movement’s leading painters of the Franco-Prussian ...

As the risk of region-wide war grows in the Middle East, the United States looks increasingly like an ineffectual bystander ...

Canny coalition-building fuelled the ascendancy of Indonesia’s Joko Widodo. But does his chosen successor represent continuity or change?

Essays & reportage Israel’s failed bombing campaign in Gaza Robert A. Pape 8 December 2023 Collective punishment won’t defeat Hamas ...

As Conservative MP Gareth Bacon put it, “Britain is under attack.” Into the midst of this contention came theologian Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2023), a largely positive account of ...

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Books & arts That slippery zeitgeist Andrew Bonnell 23 August 2024 Harald Jähner traces the forces and emotions that shaped the Weimar Republic ...

You will find him in our concert halls sitting at a harpsichord or organ or historical piano — a fortepiano from Mozart’s day or a later nineteenth- or early-twentieth-century model. You are far less ...

Braving the Melbourne winter recently were the University of Toronto’s Avi Goldfarb, the University of California’s John Asker, Julian Wright from the National University of Singapore, Lorin M. Hitt ...