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There is truth in the superstition, medical validation for the old wives and their tales. A country’s maternal mortality rate (worryingly high in the UK) is measured as the number of deaths per ...

Spain’s provincial authorities were usually compliant, González said, in part because the exhumations don’t cost them any ...

We still live in the long shadow of Habsburg disintegration. In addition to the lingering legacy of 19th-century ...

From the revelations about Jimmy Savile in 2012 to the gender pay gap debacle in 2017, the BBC was for many years ...

In Ruth, Kate Riley layers two views of the church: on the one hand, a hidden but unquestionable authority, ‘like ...

The percolating instrumentation of ‘New York’, Ja Rule’s piercing 2004 posse cut, was playing on my TV, and ...

Seamus and Mark look at four elegies written for family members, ranging from the romantic period to the 2010s, each of which avoids, deliberately or not, what Freud described as the work of mourning.

The use of verse to suggest an LLM’s human-like capacities taps into a tradition where those capacities are ...

At the end of the 20th century and across the first decade of the 21st, a swathe of countries across Latin America elected left-wing governments in what became known ...

Girl Violence, the third album by King Princess, is my favourite pop record in a good year for pop. It’s all over ...

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