‘We die! You make money!’ was one of the slogans that HIV activists chanted at the New York Stock Exchange in 1997 in protest at pharmaceutical companies whose high drug prices had barred millions of ...
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In 1928, the V&A acquired a previously unknown portrait. It shows the Black Jamaican polymath Francis Williams (c. 1690-1762), dressed in a wig, surrounded by books and scientific instruments. In all ...
The polycrisis that is unfolding demands not a return to the status quo but urgent, progressive answers both at home ...
You might think that a novelist who works in more than one language would want language itself to become conceptual, ...
The cybercriminals had breached the library’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) databases. ‘At a minimum these databases ...
Given what it sets out to do, it’s hard to fault The Thursday Murder Club. The sentences flow smoothly, the jokes ...
The bequest was the third of thirteen listed in his will of 7 May 1975, after another, larger one to the Catholic Missions ...
The first hour of Anora, Sean Baker says, belongs to the genre of romantic comedy. This makes interesting sense if ...
‘Even blindfolded,’ Emanuel Litvinoff wrote of the interwar East End in Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), ‘I’d have known where we were by the smell of the different streets – reek of rotten ...
As sparks fly up from the welding rods, the beak of a bald eagle emblazoned on the welder’s mask curves menacingly towards the viewer. With comic-book subtlety the image screams: American industrial ...