Witches in Art
This is a (Halloween special!) bonus episode that explores the image of Witches in Art, as told by Professor Lyndal Roper! What is a witch? Where does it stem from?…
Laila El-Haddad
The Gaza Kitchen
Robber Barons, Marcel Duchamp, and Big Museums’ Dirty Little Secrets
In 1915, Marcel Duchamp bought a snow shovel at a hardware store in New York City. He inscribed his signature and the date on its wooden handle. On the evening…
HarperCollins is selling their authors’ work to AI tech.
We’re not going to be able to rely on the courts to protect us, seeing as the Authors Guild suit against OpenAI has already been partially defanged by a California…
Diodora Antonia Hernández
Mining Companies and Murder
Either Apartheid is right or wrong
that's the beginning and the end of the argument
Natalie Haynes on Medusa
the author of a fantastic book, Stone Blind, which retells the story of the gorgon Medusa, who, originally in mythology, was cursed by Athena who turned her hair into snakes…
Preaching to the Perverted by James Bennett
Horror can be a source of release - our fears, our anger at the world’s injustices and also our hopes - to be seen, understood and accepted for who we…
Big publishers think libraries are the enemy
The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read.