Last fall, I received an offer I found to be irresistible. Polity Books was preparing two new volumes on Jurgen Habermäs, I was told, both of which featured his collaboration, and would I like to ...

Philosopher and social theorist who advocated a new direction for German thought after the horrors of Nazi rule ...

Once best known for its £5 sourdough, Gail’s has become a symbol of cultural tensions in today’s London. Claudia Cockerell ...

From the passeggiata to the art of aperitivo, many aspects of Italian culture capture imaginations around the world. One ...

As one of the few international art fairs fully backed and largely funded by the state, Art Basel Qatar redistributed much of ...

In an age of unprecedented wealth, an astonishing share of what the city builds today looks and feels utterly soulless. We ...

Books & the Arts / This year’s Oscar-nominated international feature films—especially The Secret Agent and Sirāt—tackle what it means to live and die under tyranny. In Sirāt, a band of ravers drive ...

In London, the artist turns the foundation’s apartment into a habitable sculpture and actually puts it on the real estate market, somewhere between fiction, desire, and urban critique.

The upcoming launch of the city’s first elite branded residence is riding on a wave of super-prime sales. But amid calls for new wealth taxes, tensions are high ...

John Lanchester is a beguiling commentator on the conceits, habits and preoccupations of the metropolitan middle classes. In his new novel Look ...