The World Island vs The Atlantic
This year, 2021, may be remembered as a pivot year in world history. Not because of…
Fragments from the Burning Archive: Anna Akhmatova
In my study is a box of old index cards with fragmentary thoughts, notes on narratives…
Red Nostalgia
During the week I attended a lecture at my old university on the meaning of the…
Third Rome
First there was the Latin empire, polyglot and legal, centred on Rome. Then there was the…