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The ideas of the German-Jewish mathematician Emmy Noether (not least the four-part theorem that bears her name) laid the ...

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David Baddiel’s candid memoir, My Family, is mostly about his parents and their “unbounded non-parenting”. I puzzled over the ...

‘This year no merry rout, no blithe revel, as before salutes us: / The instruments of gladness are neglected’ – C. W. Brodribb ...

The Irish aptitude for storytelling has long been lauded as a national characteristic, and its outlets in different literary ...

The base, the coup, the counter – and what we might expect from a second Trump term ...

A new translation of the work Simone Weil considered her greatest ...