The Nutcracker is a beloved Christmas tale, but the original version is no innocent sugarcoated fantasy.
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Romanticism centred on the idealisation of human freedom in all its forms.
The shifts associated with being in your 40s and 50s – gray hairs, career doldrums, a longing for something more – seem as inevitable as aging itself. It wasn’t always this way.
A novel that invites adoration and controversy in equal measure, Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther has endured in the popular imagination.
She has largely been airbrushed from history, but a new novel seeks to make Claire Clairmont visible by imagining her life after Byron.
A subtle and thoughtful show, full of shimmering connections that put Blake back in touch with European art figures and influences.
In his essays, Walter Benjamin sought to understand the nature of modernity. He drew on Marxism but was not contained by it, ranging across literature, art, popular culture, even Jewish mysticism.
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