Though he enjoyed a spell as Auden and Isherwood’s ambassador in London, he resented Isherwood’s use of their Berlin years in ...

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The world has been Surrealist for a hundred years, though the adjective that people turn to in trying to describe ...

I dreamt of walking out of a landscape as if out of a painting – tipped from the picture by its tilting fields.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury announced his resignation last month, five days after the publication of an ...

Part of the reason for Assad’s rapid collapse is that his international backers – Russia, Iran, Hizbullah – ...

‘How has this year been for you?’ a musician friend from the West Bank asked me when we met for the first time in several years. ‘For us, we have been through a lot before, but we were never scared,’ ...

In 1983, an emcee named Captain Rapp recorded and released ‘Bad Times (I Can’t Stand It)’, one of the West Coast’s first rap hits. The seven-minute song, which reached number 23 in the Billboard Dance ...

As Elvis’s only child, Lisa Marie Presley was burdened from birth with extraordinary, largely unwanted fame. Before her death in 2023, she spent years as tabloid fodder, less for her sporadic music ...