History according to EH Carr
The historian was prescient in warning that the value of facts depends on who wields them.
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How the appeasement of Hitler played into his hands
The word “appeasement” smells a bit off nowadays. There’s a tang of cowardice about it, a whiff of turpitude. When…
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What the Ancient Greeks teach us
The value of Athenian tragedy in an age of anxiety.
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Józef Czapski: painter, prisoner, and disciple of Proust
Czapski survived his incarceration in a Soviet prison camp and went on to produce vivid paintings and prose. But his…
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The many afterlives of Robinson Crusoe
Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe 300 years ago and his castaway – capitalist, imperialist, pragmatist – has stood for versions of…
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Dead men walking: why terrorists embraced suicide bombing
As Tsar Alexander II’s iron-clad carriage came around the corner of a snowy St Petersburg street, the first bomber hurled his…
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The female gaze can have a special poison of its own
I have spent much of my adult life reflecting on the ways that I, a woman, have been wronged by…
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Ian McEwan on his “anti-Frankenstein novel”, Machines Like Me
When does a robot become indistinguishable from a human? McEwan’s latest novel offers one answer – when it sleeps with your…
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