On 23 May 2014, a fire broke out in the Mackintosh Building of the Glasgow School of Art, destroying its library. The loss to ...

Six weeks after the start of the Second World War, the British government lifted the colour bar on military ...

Derrida opened it by reading out the ‘famous passage’ that was to serve as the ‘matrix’ for the entire series: Kant’s attempt ...

Ara Darzi released his report on the English National Health Service last month. To no one’s surprise, he finds ...

On Friday, 27 September, we felt the whole of Beirut shake. A huge plume of smoke was visible across the city.

The Broadway cinema in Prestwick closed in 1966. It was converted into a bingo hall, then a squash court and ...

You can tell a lot about the state of the contemporary university by looking at something peripheral: the parking. You might think there is only so much that can be said about parking. You would be ...

Ara Darzi released his report on the English National Health Service last month. To no one’s surprise, he finds that the service is ‘in serious trouble’, with crumbling buildings, demoralised staff ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. ‘The department store is dying,’ Rosemary Hill wrote recently in the LRB, reviewing an exhibition at the Musée ...