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Whatever my own hesitations, I usually end up challenging the idea that there are things we must not write about, for fear of giving offense...

Though the twenty-four-hour news cycle has done much to stoke our contemporary ideological divides, the roots of this phenomenon can be situated centuries ago...

On February 2 2022, Ulysses turns 100...

‘And’ is superfluous, omissible. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the regulated couplets of Tang poetry...

Tricking people into sharing copies of manuscripts with you turns out to be seriously illegal...

In Genesis 21:8, Abraham’s making a great feast. There’s lots of hamburgers. Oh, yeah. And spaghetti...

In his extremity, Blanqui saw an infinity of parallel universes...

Yes, I drank at the Hawley Arms and the Good Mixer in Camden, went to Trash, saw the Strokes at a tiny secret gig...

The men stayed one year, then another. Where else to go?

Despite the fantastic silliness of the in-game time-travel logistics, the promise of historical accuracy has been a major selling point of Assassin’s Creed since the eponymous first installment in 2007...

Why did Husserl begin thinking about movement? What was it that inspired him to make what one might call “the movement turn”?

I don’t mean to complain, but the thrice-daily knock-on-the-door announcing the delivery of food was no longer welcome...

My favourite public-house, the Moon Under Water, is only two minutes from a bus stop, but it is on a side-street...

Where do you put that memory as you sit in a café in Dizengoff Street, when it taps you on the shoulder and asks if this seat is taken?

Through the plague year, nature has been the only permitted escape: the parks, the hikes...

For Nancy, democracy is not a given form of government, with a fixed meaning, but a term whose meaning is in contestation...

The Dud Avocado follows the period young Sally Gorce chooses an expat existence in Paris over college...