Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton and the late Rick Buckler taught the youth of Britain how to dress, think and rock. Why did they ...

The rhythmic pounding of grain, the chants of the fields, and the haunting strains of dirges—once the essential pulse of ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

This was the first of several poems he would address to his painter friends over the coming years, most famously the elegies ‘The Thermal Stair’ ...

This was the first of several poems he would address to his painter friends over the coming years, most famously the elegies ‘The Thermal Stair’ ...

But that hasn’t stopped us from being fascinated by intelligence tests that attempt to assign a numerical value to how smart ...

Mdou Moctar performed at the Arden Club in Wilmington, Del. Moctar, the stage name of Tuareg guitarist Mahamadou Souleymane, ...

The world has never suffered from a scarcity of ideas. Nations and civilisations have risen on the strength of visionaries, and they have also crumbled under the weight of ideas left in the dusty ...

How do you calibrate an Oscars ceremony after a natural disaster? Other award shows are balancing the glitz with compassion – ...

In the long history of Western culture, it is given to very few to have an entire era named after them. Socrates sits within Antiquity, Leonardo da Vinci within the Renaissance; even Shakespeare has ...

No serious appraisal of the decade has yet been made. The popular after-images of ‘The Thirties’ (in the main, the handiwork of the contrite and the scornful) can be displaced only by scrupulous ...