She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter’, you’re ...

I want to introduce the idea of Cartesian anxiety into this argument. Richard J. Bernstein, who brought the term into philosophical discussion, described it as a ‘quest for some fixed point, some ...

Cork City, Éire, may soon become home to the world’s smallest public monument: a statue commemorating the mosquito — or perhaps midge — alleged to have bitten Oliver Cromwell during his brutal Irish ...

Man created God, then God created Man, as the glib saying guaranteed to offend both fundamentalist atheists and dyed in the wool theists, goes. Or perhaps it’s the other way round. In either case, ...

Please note that the historical figure King Richard III will be referred to as ‘Richard III’, and Shakespeare’s character Gloucester/King Richard as ‘Richard’ throughout these articles. “We (as an ...

One of Shakespeare’s most profound speeches doesn’t actually belong to one of his plays. The Strangers’ Case is the only extensive example of Shakespeare’s handwriting that survives, and it is from a ...

Shylock has been residing in a corner of my mind for about four years now, ever since I first studied The Merchant of Venice. I’d like to say ‘quietly’, but he’s not always quiet. I think about him ...

There was a time, not that long ago, when I was enthusiastic about arguing every detail, and examining every possible scenario, when writing an article. Very recently I caught myself laughing, at ...

Francesca Gardiner’s solo effort on The Scholar gave us a deeply fascinating insight into mother and daughter this week. Ruth Wilson’s work on Marisa Coulter is always exceptional, but by imagining ...

Back in 2018, when it was announced that the new adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon would be penned by veteran screenwriter Andrew Davies, The Guardian demanded to know how it ...

When the remains of Richard III were formally identified in 2012, it led to new discoveries about his life and times. Among the results of various investigations, it was determined that in the last ...