The artist Chaim Soutine was obsessed with Rembrandt’s painting of a flayed and headless ox. After managing at the age of ...

The prosperity of Asante, in present-day Ghana, was built in part on abundant deposits of precious metal. The British colony ...

The General Strike of 1926 by Jonathan Schneer; The Edge of Revolution: The General Strike That Shook Britain by David ...

A History of Illustration by D B Dowd ...

In 2720, centuries of population decline in Japan will yield the result of a seemingly ineluctable calculus: the final Japanese child will be born. That is the prediction of Hiroshi Yoshida, a ...

One of the great moments, among many, in Paul Fischer’s new book, The Last Kings of Hollywood, occurs in the twelfth chapter, when Fischer describes a party that took place at Francis Ford Coppola’s ...

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The trial of Dominique Pelicot, a sexual predator who invited dozens of men to rape his wife, Gisèle, while she was unconscious, attracted worldwide attention. Fifty other men appeared in court, ...

The wider circumpolar region is rich in oil, gas, metals and minerals, while thawing ice has increased the navigability of ...

I was in Manhattan during the January ‘white-out’. Thirty centimetres of snow fell in a few hours: airports closed, it was quite a storm. Looking for a safe and warm port on Sunday afternoon, I ...

Baby-making has become ‘a capitalist’s wet dream’, writes journalist Alev Scott in Cash Cow. Although the subject has been much explored by scholars, Scott comes at it a little differently – initially ...