In the months following my parents’ deaths, I decided to buy a flatbed scanner as a partial fix for the drifts of paper they had accumulated after sixty years in the same house – receipts, letters, ...
Thirty years ago, the passing of the Criminal Appeal Act led to the foundation of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), a publicly funded body intended to investigate miscarriages of justice ...
When we think of the fashions of the 1890s, several objects come to mind: the tennis racquet, the golfing cap, the Daily Mail, a full-length Singer Sargent portrait, The Diary of a Nobody. In 1896, A.
Ihid the covers of the books I read about Savarkar for this piece. I wanted to be able to read in public without worrying about the judgment of strangers; without looking like another affluent Hindu ...
In response to attacks by warring guerrilla factions that have killed dozens of people and displaced tens of ...
Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, better known as The Golden Ass, is the only ancient Roman novel to have survived in its entirety. Following the story of Lucius, forced to suffer as a donkey until the goddess ...
For reasons that have little if anything to do with US national security or foreign policy, Donald Trump has made ...
I always like to say that Iranian cinema emerges out of a thousand years of poetry, and Canadian cinema emerges ...
In the run-up to Trump 2.0, the speed with which former opponents of the once and future president are adapting to ...