That is pure fiction.’ Los Angeles takes most of its water not from the delta but from the Owens Valley (Payahuunadü, the ...

Stanford was among the first composers in Britain to write church music that was not automatically relegated to ...

Robert Schumann’s teenage ambitions of virtuosity were undone by the onset of debilitating pain in his right hand.

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When Iman shows his wife, Najmeh, his new gun, it comes with the news that he’s been promoted to the post of investigating prosecutor in Iran’s judiciary. He needs the gun for security, he says. Yet ...

Last month, my sister, her husband and their three children returned to their damaged flat in northern Gaza after enduring almost thirteen months of forced displacement. My sister said that her ...

The government’s support for Heathrow expansion is in keeping with the robotic incantations of economic growth ...

On one level, Mansfield Park is a fairytale transposed to the 19th century: Fanny Price is the archetypal poor relation who, through her virtuousness, wins a wealthy husband. But Jane Austen’s 1814 ...