Martin Amis was (and still is even after his death) one of the pre-eminent fiction writers of our time. With highly popular ...
When reporters, pundits, consultants and economists refer to the “insert-number-here” trillion-dollar private credit business ...
In “Habsburgs on the Rio Grande,” Raymond Jonas’s story of French-backed nation building in Mexico foreshadows the proxy ...
The Olympic flame-lighting ceremony has roots in ancient Greece and connects modern Olympic Games to their origin. The flame ...
By now, the Korean New Wave is almost so grafted onto global mainstream culture, it’s sometimes difficult to remember it as a ...
The torch relay was the brainchild of Carl Diem, the primary organizer of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, who imagined a ...
The celebrated filmmaker Errol Morris delivered this speech on receiving the Hitchens Prize.
it is Peppermint Candy’s ineluctable shape and pounding melancholy that leaves an ax gash on your memory. That’s not all: In the background of Mak-dong’s attempts to find a job, his clumsy ...
That’s one of those ineluctable realities of the universe. The options for producing energy are surprisingly limited, and new possibilities await the arrival of new physics. That arrival is certainly ...
It's meant to provide an ineluctable link between the modern event and the ancient Greek original on which it was initially modelled. Once it's been carried by any means imaginable to the host ...
“Taiwan’s ineluctable mission and duty will be to safeguard the prosperity and happiness of the world,” he said. “Now is the time for Taiwan and for Taiwanese to write an age of hope and dauntlessness ...