The Internet Archive lent scanned books like a library and lost. What the Hachette ruling settled, what it left open, and why the fight moved…
A New York court ordered Anna's Archive to pay $19.5m and told registries worldwide to disable its domains. The site kept indexing. Why book piracy…
By Alexander Stone Harry Beck’s 1931 London Underground diagram revolutionized information design by prioritizing clarity over geographical accuracy. His radical shift to a circuit-board aesthetic,…
By Tessa Nolan Vivienne Westwood, alongside Malcolm McLaren, ignited punk fashion from their King’s Road shop, SEX, in the 1970s. She transformed everyday items like…
Stand the two men side by side in the photographs and the joke tells itself. Same neat beard, same hooded eyes, same wary set of…
From 7 to 31 August the Edinburgh Festival Fringe takes over the city again, and the numbers alone explain why it exhausts and thrills in…
Four projects make the shortlist for RIBA's inaugural Conservation Award, announced 15 October at Old Billingsgate alongside the Stirling Prize.
The Met has named John Galliano for its spring 2027 Costume Institute show and says it will not tell a redemption story. What Horizons actually…
By Sara Bright The Angry Young Men, a journalistic label applied to a group of British writers in the mid-1950s, captured a seismic shift in…
The Booker Prize longlist arrived on 28 July, thirteen books chosen from 163 submitted, and the first thing worth saying about it is that nobody…