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What fresh hell is this that befalls us?     I.    A reader writes: "I enjoyed your recent short post on flowers and the question of ev...

Image (detail) from the front cover of   The Economist (Jan 24-30, 2015)   I.    If you were to ask me to name the thing that artists value...

  Zanele Muholi Self-Portrait (2016) from the series  Somnyama Ngonyama ('Hail The Dark Lioness') The Cooper Gallery     I.    Raci...

Charles Dana Gibson: The Weaker Sex (1903) I.  Although - like many Englishmen - I have a great fondness for American women, I...

A rare but recent photo of Thomas Tritchler taken in Salzburg, Austria The dreary utilitarianism of the English intellectual trad...