By Sara Bright There is a certain kind of object in the world that has transcended its own materiality. It is no longer just a…
By Sara Bright If you’ve spent any time on social media lately, you’ve probably seen it: the hypnotic videos of a head spa treatment. A…
By Tessa Nolan London’s celebrity geography is not random. It clusters along predictable corridors – Mayfair’s clubland, Soho’s late kitchens, Notting Hill’s pastel mews –…
By Maria Bregman To read R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface as a story about plagiarism is like reading The Great Gatsby as a cautionary tale about bad driving. It is a…
By Maria Bregman, writer and literary critic The name Stefan Zweig conjures an image of immense literary celebrity in the turbulent 1930s. His work was…
By Alexander Stone The Danish Heart of England By Sara Bright In the autumn of 865, a force described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as the…
By Maria Bregman There is a particular strain of modern historical fiction that offers its readers a terrible comfort. It takes a monumental injustice, an…
By Sara Bright As the long summer nights begin to draw in, the television schedule is heating up. August’s slate is less a trickle, more…
By Alexander Stone She was the daughter of a poet. Her mother, Annabella Milbanke, a brilliant mathematician herself, saw in the cold certainties of numbers…
On 15 November 2023, performance artist Marina Abramović addressed an audience at London’s Royal Geographical Society. She appeared in conversation with Tim Marlow, the Chief…