Five hundred years ago this week, the rebels of the German Peasants’ War, or Bauernkrieg, were defeated in a series ...

T errence Malick ​ is the quietest of American movie directors. He gives no interviews; he avoids talkshows and festival ...

Behind this anti-establishment mood, which has rankled in British politics for many years now, lies the nastier ...

My goal was just to stay safe in Sudan. But I realised I wouldn’t have a chance to study and started thinking of Europe.’ His ...

Odesa is mostly Russian-speaking and sometimes thought to be more pro-Russian than other parts of Ukraine, but there ...

Months before the Trumpist onslaught on higher education, US universities were rushing to prohibit protest encampments. Why do some ramshackle tents on lawns present such a threat to authority – as ...

A champion self-advertiser, maven of the brag and the humblebrag, Whitman announces in the first pages of Specimen ...

America’s official chief diplomat is the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, but so far his activities have been fairly limited.

Hugh Roberts has died from cancer at the age of 76. Among his books were a collection of penetrating articles ...

The version of Khovanshchina that Mussorgsky left behind when he died was as messy as the history it depicts. He began working on the opera in 1872, the bicentennial of Peter the Great’s birth. For ...