Olivia Renshaw
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The dramatic afterlife of the Aids crisis
It started with a letter. On May 25 1983, the American activist and author Larry Kramer wrote to the historian John Boswell, an authority on
Does your houseplant need a therapist?
A growing band of plant whisperers is helping ‘curate’ indoor greenery in private homes so they thrive in their environment and feel their very best
Ruth Fainlight’s life in verse
Sitting at the kitchen table, Ruth Fainlight looks out of the window to the street below. “The most startling thing to me is that, after
How Munch’s portraits provoked horror, a fist fight and a death threat
Edvard Munch learnt quickly that “when I paint a person his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness. He himself believes, however, that all
five years that changed our money
Five years on from the first pandemic in more than a century it is salutary to recall how working habits were upended, leisure was curtailed and family relations
the train that binds Canada together
Toronto’s grand old station hotel, the Fairmont Royal York, is only a few steps from Union Station, but in January you enter the gap at
End of ‘blank cheque’ era for outside consultants in Saudi Arabia
A consulting boom in Saudi Arabia is slowing as Riyadh reins in spending and reassesses the vast sums being paid to outside advisers to help
The real history of free speech — from supreme ideal to poisonous politics
The 300-year-old doctrine is being tested by the excesses of digital oligarchs, says historian Fara Dabhoiwala Source link
The bright side of a transatlantic rift
Culturally, it’s not the worst thing if Europe and America have less to do with each other Source link
How America weaponised the world’s economy
Dollar hegemony has long enraged governments around the world. In the 1960s the French complained of America’s “exorbitant privilege”. Forty years later, as the global