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Marie Nejar died last month at the age of 95. As far as the Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD) is ...

I wanted to understand the figure of Riefenstahl in her development,’ Andres Veiel says, ‘without exculpating ...

In Social Topography of a Rural Community, Steve Hindle describes the lives of 780 inhabitants of 176 households ...

I thought,’ White wrote in his autobiographical masterpiece The Farewell Symphony (1997), ‘that never had a ...

How can we account for France’s historical wavering on race, between an extraordinary openness to assimilation ...

James Meek looks at some of the political debate stirred in Greenland by the release of a Danish documentary earlier this year and considers why Donald Trump is so obsessed with owning the island.

One way of thinking about fascism is to see it as historically specific: a reactionary mass movement produced by the economic and social chaos that engulfed Europe after the First World War. Fascism ...

Norman Lewis wrote about himself that ‘travel came before writing. There was a time when I felt that all I wanted from life was to be allowed to remain a perpetual spectator of changing scenes.’ ...

When a man tips his hat on the street, we take it as a friendly greeting. That’s what it means to read visual signs ‘iconographically’, Erwin Panofsky writes in his classic essay ‘Iconography and ...