By Alexander Stone In the spring of 2026, a 10,000-word New York Times investigation by John Carreyrou – the journalist who dismantled Theranos – named…
By Sara Bright In the summer of 1834, a steamship carried two of France’s most celebrated writers from Paris to Venice. Alfred de Musset, the…
By Maria Bregman, writer, literary and art critic Pelted with herring, lampooned by editors, and ignored by Queen Victoria herself, William McGonagall became the worst…
By Alexander Stone When Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy, emerged from a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow in March 2025, he was carrying…
By Sara Bright In 1965, at the Württemberg State Theatre in Stuttgart, John Cranko unveiled a ballet that had no right to exist. The intendant…