The moment comes early in Mohammad Rasoulof’s new film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which won the Special Prize at Cannes ...

Stanford was among the first composers in Britain to write church music that was not automatically relegated to ...

We ask a lot of some very small fish. Single species are relied on to save entire ecosystems. In December I tried to ...

Last month, my sister, her husband and their three children returned to their damaged flat in northern Gaza after enduring almost thirteen months of forced displacement. My sister said that her ...

Donald Trump recently deported a planeload of 88 Brazilians, who arrived with cuts and bruises after being ...

The Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth is a master of the collapsing relationship. In her twenty books, five of which have been translated into English, she turns her eye to estranged siblings, ...

Since his re-election as president of the United States, Donald Trump has revived his plan to ‘buy’ Greenland from Denmark, and in his inaugural address threatened to ‘take back’ the Panama Canal.

Anyone who plays an instrument – or has shared a house with a musician – will be familiar with the maddening nature of repetitive practice. Many piano players have bought Charles-Louis Hanon’s The ...

The government’s support for Heathrow expansion is in keeping with the robotic incantations of economic growth ...

On one level, Mansfield Park is a fairytale transposed to the 19th century: Fanny Price is the archetypal poor relation who, through her virtuousness, wins a wealthy husband. But Jane Austen’s 1814 ...