The Art and Science of Tuning This lecture presents the rich history of musicians’ engagement with...
The Poetry of Prediction: Musical Time, Rhythm and Groove Music is a temporal art, unfolding like a ribbon and...
Markets and Marxism: USA, USSR and China Different models of economic modernity competed during the Cold War...
Endings in the Novel, from Austen and Dickens to Edward St Aubyn and Rachel Cusk More than anything else, the end matters to the novel...
Historical Fiction from Sir Walter Scott to Georgette Heyer and Hilary Mantel Until the 1970s, historical fiction was a scorned genre that...