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Levine announced to the world that he was cancelling all his classes to lock himself away for three months in 1973 to read Gravity’s Rainbow. Eight hours a day. No remission. He emerged, as he put it, “giddy” but convinced...

Levine announced to the world that he was cancelling all his classes to lock himself away for three months in 1973 to read Gravity’s Rainbow. Eight hours a day. No remission. He emerged, as he put it, “giddy” but convinced...

It’s out there with Finnegans Wake (although two years earlier), and but for the fact it hadn’t been synthesised yet, you’d be wondering if Dr Destouches hadn’t scored a tab of LSD.

in a 2008 survey, 86% of 14 to 18-year-olds said they were proud to be German, though they weren’t able to put a finger on why—65% named coming third in the World Cup as a reason.

 It may be asked if it is really worth an author’s while to devise and distribute these delicate markers whose very nature requires that they be not too conspicuous. Who will bother to notice that Pankrat Tzikutin, the shabby...

All of the UK’s major rail franchises are, ironically, run by companies that are wholly or partly publicly owned by other countries. Germany’s Deutsche Bahn, France’s SNCF and the Dutch Nederlandse Spoorwegen either own or...

What Heath is alluding to here is the “Overton Window,” an invention of the US conservative right. The “Overton Window” refers to the political ideas that are seen as politically acceptable, palatable, mainstream,...

In 1963 Labour Leader Hugh Gaitskell died of a very rare and strange disease, Lupus Disseminator, which attack the main organs. His doctor was so concerned that he visited Porton Down and MI5 to discover that the only way to...

INTERVIEWER Do you write down your dreams? FERRANTE The rare times that I seem to remember them, yes. I’ve done it since I was a girl. It’s an exercise that I would recommend to everyone. To subject a dream experience to the...

“Perhaps these skirmishes should be thought less in terms of conflict between science and religion, and more as theological controversies waged by means of science.”