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1 week ago | 
the-tls.co.uk | Robert Bevan |Lenni Sanders |James Cook |Lucy Scholes
To access over 1000 book reviews, essays and more, subscribe here‘Ground zero for the liberal elite’A guide to various culture war types What a peculiar book this is. Peter York, best known for his cod-anthropological examination of British society’s various snobby tribes, The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982), has turned his attention to the culture wars.
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Lap Phan |Robert Bevan
Robert BevanMar 26, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? All the clocks are stopped at the Villa Noailles. The 15-bedroom concrete house, designed in 1923, was one of France’s first modernist homes, rambling across the slopes above the hill town of Hyères in Provence.
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2 months ago | 
dezeen.com | Robert Bevan
Statuemania is back, but the political weaponisation of memorials will not end happily, writes Robert Bevan. There's a short, cobbled street in Munich still known as Shirkers' Alley. It was the route locals took during the Third Reich to avoid passing a Nazi war memorial around the corner. Performing a respectful Hitler salute at the memorial was compulsory. Non-compliance was punished. It's an extreme example of the reverence sometimes demanded of secular monuments.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Cordelia Fine |Robert Bevan |Adam Sutcliffe |Nat Segnit
Rebecca L. Davis’s magisterial new book, Fierce Desires: A new history of sex and sexuality in America, concludes with a 2023 decision by a federal judge in Texas, Matthew Kacsmaryk, to outlaw the distribution by mail of the abortion drug mifepristone.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Robert Bevan
Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
afr.com | Robert Bevan
Life & LuxuryTravelThe French city’s gritty, colourful past is exemplified in the Panier district. Here’s a guide to where to stay and dine – away from the tourist traps. Robert BevanDec 12, 2024 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber?
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Robert Bevan
Advanced search National Identities Latest Articles Submit an article Journal homepage Full Article Figures & data References Citations Metrics Reprints & Permissions Read this article /doi/full/10.1080/14608944.2024.2429513?needAccess=true ABSTRACT This article examines the intricate layers of identity in Hay-on-Wye, a Welsh border town that symbolizes both cultural distinctiveness and national ambiguity. Through ethnographic research, it explores how residents negotiate Welsh, English, and...
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Robert Bevan
Touring post-war Germany in 1950, the philosopher Hannah Arendt was struck by an apparent inability of people to face the reality of their destroyed world: “Amid the ruins,” she wrote, “Germans mail each other picture postcards still showing cathedrals and market places, the public buildings that no longer exist.”Architecturally, Germany’s attempts to face its cultural losses and reconcile the horrific recent past with an unknown future resulted in a number of tendencies.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Robert Bevan
A landmark report on the impact of heavy weaponry on civilians and cultural heritage was released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School earlier this year. “Destroying Cultural Heritage: Explosive Weapons’ Effects in Armed Conflict and Measures to Strengthen Protection” shows how, as well as causing civilian casualties, this indirectly inflicts “psychosocial, economic, and other types of harm”.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
standard.co.uk | Robert Bevan
Serpentine Pavilion designs come along in cycles – if we’ve had a few years of circular parkland rotundas, an inevitable contrariness mean it’s the turn of something more freeform. So it is this year. The 23rd annual pavilion is not one object but a ring of five timber-framed volumes gathered around an empty circle where in other years a rotunda might be.
