We had been watching The X-Files at a rate of about two episodes a year; I expected to be finished when I was approximately 114 and living in a small fishing village in Japan. But ever since my ...

There’s no ‘s’ at the end of ‘rule’, and there’s a comma before it. As every schoolboy pedant knows, it’s ‘Britannia, rule the waves!’ – an imperative or exhortation, not a statement of fact. An ocean ...

The central staircase at Camden Town Hall is made of white marble from Carrara and is more lustrous than any marble staircase you’re likely to see in Rome. The building was designed for the Borough of ...

Kendrick Lamar, who calls himself a ‘certified boogeyman’, is a contemporary Dracula guy, wending his way onto ...

Just like after the US presidential election in 2016, we are hearing endless exhortations from pundits (and ...

Wyndham Lewis – novelist, painter, thinker-at-large – could sound quite as adulatory about the figure of ‘the Artist’ as ...

Jane Ellen Harrison was Britain’s first female career academic, a maverick public intellectual labelled ‘the cleverest woman in England’. Her quips and quirks have become legendary, but many of those ...

Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.

There is no doubt of the success of the effect, this slapstick without ridicule, but how has Flaubert managed, throughout the ...

It is almost the inverse of the Disney parks where you pay to have a prepared experience offered to you. At Ghibli ...