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How many of us have strolled through our local wine and spirits shop around New Year’s Eve, noticed the words Veuve Clicquot ...
The full lineup for this year's Stendhal Festival has now been announced, with acts such as Mr Scruff joining the likes of ...
A renowned French scholar and publishing figure, he looked at what societies choose to honor — and forget — in telling their ...
Napoleon Bonaparte’s journey from his birth in Corsica in 1768 to his coronation as Emperor of France in 1804 is a tale of ...
We must not forget what happened in the months before George Floyd’s death either.
Matt and Sam discuss Christopher Caldwell's The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, a broadside against the 1964 ...
This new musical makes a case both for its own mainstream success and for its heroine as an under-appreciated icon.
Sudan’s former prime minister has told The Associated Press that the military's recent victories will not end the country's ...
The English pop singer Jessie J says she has been diagnosed with early breast cancer. She says she will undergo surgery after ...
JoJo Siwa’s personal life has been a hot topic since she rose to fame on Dance Moms. Siwa’s first-ever public relationship was with Mark Bontempo, which she hard-launched in August 2020 ...
Professor of Near Eastern Studies Franck Salameh has been named editor in chief of The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, the flagship publication of the Association of the Study of the Middle ...
Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-American author, born in Argentina. He is a prominent human rights activist who worked as press and cultural advisor to Salvador Allende in the final months before the 1973 ...