For early modern writers, conception was an occasion to describe the otherwise indescribable: a woman’s orgasm, supposedly ...

The ingredients of compost are dead things or, as the YouTube gardener Bruce Darrell put it, ‘anything that was recently ...

His spaniel was up on its hind legs, paws on his master’s belly, where my paws happily had lately been. He was my host, and I ...

On 1 April, the memorial site at the former Buchenwald concentration camp announced that the Israeli philosopher ...

A faint irony in the presentation of this thought tells us that Paudi may be a bit too correct and modern, and Buzzati later ...

El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) opened in 2023. It has capacity for up to forty thousand prisoners, although is said to be only half full. CECOT was built to incarcerate ...

English and comparative literature and the 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies at UCLA. He is the author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation , ...

Last Thursday evening, more than twenty Metropolitan police officers – some armed with tasers – broke down the doors of the Quaker meeting house in Westminster to arrest six young women. The women ...

Barbara Everett, who died on Friday, 4 April at the age of 92, was for many years a fellow of Somerville College, ...