The philosopher charged with defending campus free speech is robustly independent, happy to take on vested interests — and not easily pigeonholed

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Henry Miller spent the last four years of his life hopelessly in love with a Playboy model 60 years his junior

The German obsession with Goethe’s Faust and Shakespeare’s Hamlet

On the ladder of literature, film novelisation was once considered above only pornography

In the heart of the Amazon basin the Korubo people live in almost total isolation

Forget the sneering of Benjamin Britten, for whom Brahms’s music was “ugly and foul”, the German composer and pianist was a virtuoso talent whose best works burn with volcanic passion and seriousness of purpose

The abuse of artificial intelligence systems threatens the integrity of our education system

How the US government and the FBI dealt with Sadeq Qotbzadeh and other opponents of Tehran in the time of the Shah

It was founded as the party of working people, so why are Labour’s prospective MPs more middle-class than ever before?