Widower's Tango

Terry Eagleton is a Lancaster University professor of English literature. He is also an outspoken socialist. Normally, this shouldn't...

When it was first released in 1975, Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon suffered the fate of being labelled (by Pauline Kael) a "cof...

Sigmund Freud is one of those intellectual mountains that have to be scaled before anyone can call themselves an educated person. He is als...

As I watch, from the other side of the world, the disaster in the Carolinas wrought by Hurricane Florence, I have very mixed feelings. I ...

Rebecca West was 25 when, 100 years ago, her first novel The Return of the Soldier was published. The First World War wasn't to conc...

The following thoughts are completely off-the-cuff - in fact they are provoked by a clip I ran across on YouTube, taken from what (I gues...

Though they were in power for only 75 years, the Soviets saw great significance in anniversaries. The 10th anniversary of the October Rev...