As Álvarez showed in his powerful crónica of the country today, The Tribe (2017; 2019), belonging to said tribe is a ...

Alex Nunns is an author and activist who worked as Jeremy Corbyn’s speechwriter from 2018 to 2020. He has chronicled the ups ...

At school everyone used to read of how Caesar conquered all of Gallia (Gaul) by doing nothing more than responding with ...

One achievement of the avant-garde has been to show that anything can be art. There are numerous memorable examples spanning the century from Duchamp’s Fountain (1917) to Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian ...

In late October 2014, hundreds of thousands of people poured onto the streets of Burkina Faso, incensed by Blaise Compaoré’s bid to change the constitution and seek a fifth presidential term.footnote ...

An initial answer could be: it is the transformation of social existence—at some unspecified moment between Dante and Cervantes—into a ‘world of convention’ whose abnormality Lukács tries to capture ...

The idea of the primitive has long been a potent and highly influential current in British thought and history.footnote 1 In particular, the period 1918–30 saw primitivism established as an important ...