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Belanglo State Forest is two hours north of my home in Canberra – barely a drive by Aussie standards, just a quick detour off the Hume Highway on the way ...
Fantasy, folly and frolic: those tutelary deities of Offenbach’s operettas did not quit the scene when he turned to the heavier material of The Tales of Hoffmann. They stuck around to oversee ...
A special interview with the sociologist Richard Sennett takes us from Roland Barthes to Leonard Bernstein, while Hettie Judah considers two memoirs inspired by a love of seventeenth-century art ...
This week, Charles Foster explores how psychedelic drugs are changing lives and Alan Jenkins discusses the lure of the open seas.
Susannah Gibson’s new book is a biographical history of the women who formed and hosted some of the most famous London salons in the eighteenth century.
How should we live? How should society be arranged? Utilitarians believe that such questions reduce to one simple principle: the better action (or policy, or social institution) is the one that brings ...
Darkness everywhere. Night pervades, then dies.Now kerb sweepers, bread vans and early trafficrumble by my window-side bed while rain-musicfizzles on slate roofs as dawn pours inside.An alarm squawks ...
The late Derek Parfit imagined the following choice. We could carefully steward our planet’s bounties, investing in infrastructure and renewable energy while leaving resources for future generations.
368pp. Verso. Paperback, £11.99. In December 2018, the United Nations special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, received an email from a group of lawyers headed “Julian Assange is seeking your ...
Veroniki Dalakoura (b.1952) first came to the notice of her translator, John Taylor, after their mutual friend Elias Petropoulos alerted him to her work.