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Jul 20, 20194 min read
Paranoid Androids
ETHAN CROFT - Machine sadness and the future of artificial intelligence.
Jul 20, 20197 min read
Flights of Being
MAISIE CORKHILL - Iris Murdoch’s contribution to literature 100 years on.
Jul 18, 20196 min read
The Look of Love
ANNABEL JACKSON - The hidden eroticism of eye miniatures, from the Georgian era to today.
Jul 17, 20194 min read
Auf Deutsch
MADELEINE BALLARD -It was the Ur-language for 90 million speakers, literally the code for another way of life.
Jul 16, 20194 min read
The Anxiety of Influence
JESSIE GOETZINGER - 'By nature symbolic, skeptical or dream-ridden': an interview with Yelena Moskovich.
Jul 14, 20197 min read
Stop the Clock
ALEXANDRIA HERR -Is there really a 2030 deadline to act on climate change?
Jul 12, 20195 min read
"Fanatacism and Shoppping": In Conversation with Simon Schama
LOUIS DAVIDSON - Simon Schama on public art, free speech, and life as an expat.
Jul 11, 20197 min read
The State of Nature
LIBBY CHERRY - Activist Bill McKibben takes on the mindset fuelling climate change.
Jul 7, 20198 min read
Brexit and the Baroque
PETER DAVIDSON AND ALISON SHELL - Has an Anglocentric worldview come to dominate the arts as well as politics?
Jul 5, 20194 min read
Fiction in Brief
JOHN PHIPPS - Three major authors on the nature of cruelty.
Jul 3, 201913 min read
At the Frontiers of Freedom
VAFA GHAZAVI - Can technology usher in a new era of equality?
Jul 2, 201913 min read
A Zucking Nightmare
ALEXANDRE LESKANICH - The political future of a tech-obsessed world.
Jun 30, 20195 min read
Modern Classics
LILY HERD - A. E. Stallings grapples with modern tragedies.
Jun 29, 20198 min read
Going Underground
MILO NESBITT - Visiting the world beneath our feet with Robert Macfarlane's "Underland".
Jun 28, 20197 min read
A Journey Home
YUQING WENG -The winning story of this term's ORB fiction competition, judged by Patrick McGuinness.
Jun 27, 20198 min read
Crossing the River
CHANG CHE - The Communist Party once extolled its feminists as a symbol of national pride -- now, it has turned against them.
Jun 25, 20199 min read
The Man Who Knew Too Much
MAX NORMAN - An Enlightenment philosopher's flirtation with authoritarianism.
Jun 23, 201918 min read
'I Don't Think I'm Rude'
JOHN MAIER - A conversation with notorious interviewer Lynn Barber.
Jun 21, 20198 min read
Finishing the Unfinished
EDWARD CAMPBELL-ROWNTREE - A Chinese tech giant attempts to complete Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony.
Jun 20, 20199 min read
What's So Funny?
ARTHUR JAMES - Canned laughter and the death of comedy.
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