D’Angelo, that Pentecostal preacher’s son, the man Robert Christgau called ‘R&B Jesus’, has died, and, with ...

The obvious utility for metal-organic frameworks – always a concern for the Nobel committee, especially in ...

Part of Rodrigo Paz Pereira’s success in the Bolivian presidential election lies with his choice of running ...

Global Progress Action was in London at the end of last month, filling Methodist Central Hall with politicians and ...

Avigdor Arikha became the archivist of the everyday: not, it seems, because he sought out the ordinary but because each ...

Global Progress Action was in London at the end of last month, filling Methodist Central Hall with politicians and think tankers of broadly defined ‘progressive’ politics from around the world. On the ...

Controversy over Cecil Rhodes began long before the recent campaign to remove statues of him from the University of Cape Town ...

The mummy portraits are stunning. Their production began around 30-40 ce, sixty or so years after the defeat of ...

The main road west from El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, was abandoned by travellers during the war in the ...

On many occasions, Lewis courted beatings and arrest in order to bring attention to the racial mistreatment that was ...

What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big ...

The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s most autobiographical novel, and the first she published after her identity as a woman was revealed. A ‘dreamscape’ version of her Warwickshire childhood, the ...