Paul Stephenson
Paul Stephenson is the author of "The Serpent Column: a cultural biography," which explores the history of a bronze sculpture through 2,500 years. His next book is "New Rome. The Roman Empire in the East", forthcoming with Profile and Harvard University Press.
The Fate of Hagia Sophia
Will Hagia Sophia’s Christian heritage survive under President Erdoğan’s ‘neo-Ottoman’ vision?
Assaulting statues
The history of iconoclasm offers deeper lessons than are on display in the current statue-toppling craze
Death of a sporting hero
Lester Piggott was the greatest jockey — bar none
Why we need a new movement
The timid world of BritLit needs to be shaken up by a mutinous new clique of writers
Pushkin House beats a bomb threat
A note of dread on a night about Eurasianism
We mustn’t repeal the Human Rights Act
The European Court of Human Rights is a necessary check against authoritarianism
Studio: The 2022 Venice Biennale
Cecilia Alemani has produced an exceptionally intelligent and delightful Biennale
It’s grim up north
Is the Northman alt-right propaganda? Perhaps, but it’s not the only one