Q&A with Professor Nigel Biggar
Professor Nigel Biggar CBE answers questions from the ORB
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Dec 8, 20237 min read
Tongue-Tied
Finding yourself aboard the Taipei metro, a voice over the tannoy states the station towards which you are heading in clear-cut Mandarin.
Dec 7, 20237 min read
Hyper-Mechanical Reproduction
In the last twenty years, big budget studio cinema has begun to account for most global box office sales.
Dec 6, 20237 min read
Women of the World, Work!
Novels about work have become ubiquitous.
Dec 5, 20236 min read
Two More Years
Paris was tense on election day. Just outside a polling centre in in Le Marais voters tore down photos of incumbent president Macron.
Dec 4, 20237 min read
In the Beginning was the Word
'Criticism is, in its highest development, simply a mood’.
Dec 3, 20236 min read
Which Way, Western Man?
Rushdie and Shatz merge in their interest in cosmopolitanism and exile, in the fact of finding oneself between identities...
Dec 2, 20238 min read
Eyes to the Right
'Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are’.
Nov 30, 20234 min read
Binding the Beautiful
'Do you suppose any mortal has skill enough to make a butterfly?’
Nov 29, 20236 min read
Staging Grief
Staging grief is a delicate balancing act.
Nov 28, 20237 min read
Public Property
And where was the blood found, exactly?’
‘Well that’s the thing, right. Everywhere, in a way.’
Nov 28, 20236 min read
Human Wrongs, Animal Rights?
‘We expect extinction after people arrive on an island…survival is the exception.’
Nov 27, 20237 min read
History as it Should Have Been
Truths needn’t always depend upon facts for their expression’. So says Tom Crewe, in the Afterword to The New Life.
Nov 25, 20237 min read
Electra Complex
‘We paint our toenails red, though we put shoes on our feet so no one will see our flashy toes.'
Nov 23, 20237 min read
Green New Deal?
The late sociologist Bruno Latour and his collaborator Nikolaj Schultz are at the forefront of a newly conceptualised ecological battle.
Nov 16, 20237 min read
A Continuous Prayer
Abrus precatorius is a flowering plant native to Asia, whose cheery, Christmas-red seeds also contain the lethal substance abrin.
Nov 11, 20235 min read
In the Footsteps of Others
For me, every new year begins with an all-day hike.
Nov 9, 20237 min read
Language Against Itself: The German Universe of Walter Benjamin and his non-German Universality
Walter Benjamin is often perceived as a puzzle to be solved.
Oct 26, 20235 min read
Above All Else: Desire in Maggie Millner
Love poetry is a risky business. Maggie Millner in her debut Couplets: A Love Story (2023) seems all too aware of this.
Mar 30, 202310 min read
A Man of Letters
ELEANOR CLARK and RACHEL REES - An interview with Tom Crewe
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