The superego, which has all too easily passed into ordinary language as the secular equivalent of the conscience, has had a rather chequered career as both an idea and as one of the main ‘characters’ ...

In March 1973, before taking his new play, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, around the village halls of the Highlands, John McGrath accepted a last-minute invitation to perform it at a ...

Some people convert to Catholicism to answer their doubt, others to give their doubt shelter. Fanny Howe belonged to the latter party. ‘Did I have faith or was it hype,’ she asks in one poem. And ...

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Users of the British Library received an email on 21 October with the subject line ‘Transforming your Library’.

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Girning about hydro power in Strathglass is a bit like moving to Soho and complaining about the noisy nightlife.

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When the fair closed for good that evening, a banner reading ‘Art of the Rich: War and Genocide’ was unfurled from the first floor. In the toilets at the Grand Palais, someone had written in lipstick ...