There is a particular strangeness to living inside a culture that talks to itself through film dialogue. An American will tell you something is “a…
By Sara Bright Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, working as The Archers, transformed British cinema from documentary realism into a medium of feverish psychological opera.…
The thieves struck just before ten on Saturday evening, while Messina’s streets were still thrumming with the Processione della Vara. By the time the religious…
By Sara Bright The National Theatre, designed by Denys Lasdun and opened in 1976 on London’s South Bank, embodies postwar Britain’s commitment to public culture…
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…
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…