Conor Gearty has died at the age of 67. He was a founder member of Matrix chambers and a professor of human rights ...

Until the arrival of Adichie’s generation, it had seemed impossible to speak of or understand the ‘African novel’ outside the ...

David Foster Wallace said that he spoke like ‘Jimmy Stewart on acid’ (though Lynch’s addictions were the diner-appropriate ...

The winners in an autocracy have little in common with the losers, but putting on aviator sunglasses or a leather ...

Traditionally, it was the shaman who swallowed or sniffed intoxicating plants as a way of gaining access to the world ...

Every two years, the UK hosts one of the world’s largest arms fairs at the Excel centre in East London. The ...

Dread Beat an’ Blood, Johnson’s second book of poems, appeared in 1975. It includes ‘Doun de Road’, which addressed the rise ...

I don’t know when this tradition began – perhaps with the first comic movie that didn’t work – but it’s certainly on clunky ...

Starting out on his quest into his family history, Joe Dunthorne doesn’t know what to ask his grandmother about ...

In this country, trial by jury is constitutive of a fair, credible, legitimate system of criminal justice. It is ...

Watching birders in the middle of the act, weighed down with binoculars and cameras, standing in silence, is a bit ...

Parker noted a bevy of plays dealing with Prohibition, the ‘Irish question’ (‘what a rough day it will be for the drama when ...