The domino stamps that Evans painted allowed him to play the game around the edge of an envelope, turning the corners as one ...

This life-sized Melania, the work of American conceptual artist Brad Downey, was ambiguous – neither celebration nor obvious ...

At the end of April, I travelled to Dubai to observe a violin competition. It was a commission for which I was profoundly unqualified, except in one regard: I wanted to visit Dubai. The editor of a ...

Major General Muhammadu Buhari, who died in a London hospital this month at the age of 82, came to international prominence on the last day of 1983, when he and his deputy, Major General Túndé ...

In recent weeks, thousands of Bulgarians have filled the streets of the capital, Sofia, protesting against the country’s accession to the Eurozone, which is due to take effect at the beginning of next ...

New York City politics can seem intensely local. Yet occasionally something happens here that transfixes the world. In 1886, the insurgent mayoral campaign of Henry George seemed to shake the ...

Messengers of revolution are always welcome. Ernest Mandel’s thesis in ‘Where Is America Going?’ (NLR 54) that a socialist revolution within the United States is on the agenda of the next decade or ...

When Donald Trump invoked ‘manifest destiny’ in his inaugural address, it was in its oldest meaning as territorial expansion: the predestined, God-given American right to claim and acquire new land – ...

With a couple of weeks of hindsight, the biggest surprise in the German federal elections was that the political mainstream ended up doing as well as it did. Granted, the traditional parties of the ...