Mali's literary heritage is at risk of destruction by Islamists bent on eradicating all art that doesn't fit their oppressive worldview

Britain's clumsy diplomacy has damaged relations with Kenya

Martin Heidegger's apparent denazification after the — with the help of Jewish lover Hannah Arendt — requires further examination

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Critics have wrongly disparaged the author of Gulliver's Travels, whom critics have disparaged as a misanthrope, a misogynist and a madman

The infamous French libertine should be enjoying a reviva. The trouble is, he was a rotten pornographer

The French polymath Henri Pointcaré excelled in astronomy, physics mathematics and a lot more

Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty deserve awards, Hitchcock is dull and Les Miserables in unbearable