How should we live? How should society be arranged? Utilitarians believe that such questions reduce to one simple principle: the better action (or policy, or social institution) is the one that brings ...

Darkness everywhere. Night pervades, then dies.Now kerb sweepers, bread vans and early trafficrumble by my window-side bed while rain-musicfizzles on slate roofs as dawn pours inside.An alarm squawks ...

The late Derek Parfit imagined the following choice. We could carefully steward our planet’s bounties, investing in infrastructure and renewable energy while leaving resources for future generations.

Veroniki Dalakoura (b.1952) first came to the notice of her translator, John Taylor, after their mutual friend Elias Petropoulos alerted him to her work.

Many people educated in anglophone cultures will recall their first, challenging experience of reading Chaucer. His language probably seemed baffling, even foreign, with its lack of standardization, ...

Tom Stoppard once said that The Real Thing should ideally be seen only once, because of the number of tricks it plays on the audience. The tricks are essential, of course, a well-oiled machine ...

Toby Lichtig chats to Sam Leith about formative literature at Jewish Book Week and David Horspool meets Sue Prideaux, winner of this year’s Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize ...

Stepping out of his apartment block in Paris’s chic sixteenth arrondissement, the filmmaker Robert Bristol narrowly avoids being hit by a falling man.

To Albert Camus, Amsterdam’s concentric waterways resembled the circles of hell. His protagonist in The Fall (1956), a “judge- penitent” who whiles away his days in a seedy sailors’ bar on the Zeedijk ...

“If you see me on the scaffolding of a house under construction … I’m Mario Fagiolo. If, instead, you see me belly up in the field, tickling the clouds with a blade of grass between my teeth, make no ...

You say I gave too much; I say too little– Mirabai Seminal sentinel guards an arduousyawn, retellings mucked upby bootstrap determination.Never a win-win, that one,more repetition compulsion,hand over ...