An interview with Saafir showed up on my Instagram feed last November. Jason Moran posted it with the caption: ...

Andrade tried out Surrealist poetry and wrote an ironic novel with the painfully abstract title Amar, Verbo Intransitivo. It ...

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 ...

Every chapter of What Is Free Speech? makes you think afresh about the subject. What repeatedly surprises Dabhoiwala, and us, ...

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

Hayek had understood that persuading any society to accept the rigours of capitalist freedom was never going to be easy.

John Pring’s account reveals something of the character of austerity: it isn’t so much that the state withdraws from an involvement in people’s lives, but that its contact with them is degraded. Many ...

Terrence Malick is the quietest of American movie directors. He gives no interviews; he avoids talkshows and festival appearances; he doesn’t feed us stories of what he was doing and why. For decades, ...

In The Essence of Christianity (1841) Feuerbach works through the theological crisis of his age to articulate the central, radical idea of 19th-century atheism: that the religion of God is really the ...

‘Home,’ Mark Fisher wrote in Ghosts of My Life, ‘is where the haunt is.’ And ‘the house always wins.’ My boiler whispers and grunts in the night. I feel the presence of my sofa creeping around behind ...

She’s just moved in with Elliot. Their new flat is in an affluent neighbourhood, surrounded by bakeries, yoga studios and organic vegetable shops. They even have a garden. And yet, from the moment ...