Current Affairs
Thursday Nov 10th, 2011
From Murdoch to Trollope: a familiar intrigue
The Murdoch ‘phone-hacking’ affair, being investigated today by a House of Commons select committee, seems the most contemporary of stories, chock-full of hacked mobile phones, high-tech surveillance equipment and secret video-recordings. But although the technology might have changed, it is a world that would have been only too familiar to nineteenth-century author Anthony Trollope. He… read more »
Monday Oct 3rd, 2011
What makes an image an icon?
Martin Kemp discusses three iconic images: the Mona Lisa, the Coca-Cola bottle, and the swastika.
Friday
Jul 8th, 2011
Content-free prose: The latest threat to writing or the next big thing?
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