“Only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mind”, W. B. Yeats wrote in 1927; “sex and the dead.” ...

Augustus the Strong, elector of Saxony and king of Poland from the 1690s to the 1730s, could supposedly bend a horseshoe with ...

Lays heaven at its feet, hell at its head, Its smiling face inverted into frown.

In the past Michael Longley has been sceptical about his Selected Poems. In an interview with Peter McDonald in 1998 he ...

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A mission to revive publishing in the once-dominant language ...

In March this year the International Union of Geological Sciences, the body tasked with defining Earth’s geological timeframe, made a shock decision. It rejected the proposal that since 1952 we have ...

Forty-one-year-old Police Constable Trevor Lock was at his usual post, guarding the Iranian embassy in London, on the morning of April 30, 1980. At 11.36 he noticed a young man whom he took to be ...

On the day I go to see Jordan Wolfson’s Colored sculpture (2016), installed in one of the Tanks at Tate Modern, a little girl is led sobbing from the room; a toddler stands mesmerized; a young man ...