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Hearts of Darkness: Meeting Mengele
Most first novels are emotionally explosive, going to the heart of the individual. Novelist Paul Pickering changed from journalism to...

Paul Pickering
8 min read


Exploring Ukrainian Identity: In Conversation with Anastasiia Marushevska
Anastasiia Marushevska is Editor-in-Chief of Ukraїner International. Ukraїner, conceived by journalist and writer Bohdan Lohvynenko as a...

Nour Kachi
21 min read


Afrodescendants Claim Rights to Benin Bronzes—They Belong to All of Us
We are the Restitution Study Group (RSG), a New York-based non-profit founded in 2000 to campaign for innovative approaches to healing...

Deadria Farmer-Paellmann et al
8 min read


Ukrainian Heritage Held Hostage: Crimean Gold’s Long Way Home
I. Introduction 2014 was the beginning of a turbulent but crucial journey for the Ukrainian identity to gain a foothold. In February of...

Leila Kazimi
18 min read


Neither Maid nor Man: In Conversation with Alex Garden
A snapshot in time of English folk music, queer visibility, and gender non-conformity Alex Garden is a fiddle player, guitarist,...

Abi Dore
23 min read


Blaze of Glory
Applause in the executive boardroom. Hands pound backs, mouths twist into smiles. A round man with a stain of indecipherable grease on his shirt collar rises to speak, gesturing inanely at an electronic display. His hands twitch with glee as he highlights data points and maps out forecasts. ‘Returns for this quarter are exceptional, a threefold uptick on last year. Our customer base has expanded markedly. Any number of substantial brand deals. And a few bookings of particular

Jack Graveney
8 min read


Arborescence
Marcus did not know what to expect. The man with whom he had spoken on the phone made little sense. A number of names had been mentioned, people he had never heard of, and at times Marcus thought the voice on the other end of the line must have been speaking in a foreign language, unfamiliar noises which were sometimes guttural and heavy and sometimes airborne and breathy, and sometimes somewhere in the middle. All he had been able to make out was a time and address, which he

Jack Graveney
6 min read


Where the Thames Meets the Sea
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to...

Julian Kirwan-Taylor
11 min read


Art under Siege: In Conversation with Mykhailo Glubokyi
Three Stories of Art and War II коли гуркочуть гармати- музи замовкають The Russian invasion catapulted the Ukrainian art world into crisis, and desperate measures were undertaken to secure staff, collections, and artists. Dreams are deferred but stubborn resilience manifests as a desire to not only protect cultural heritage, but also somehow provide opportunities for continued creativity. Three institutions from all regions of Ukraine—Central, East, and West—reflect on their

Constance Uzwyshyn
10 min read


Art at the Arsenal: In Conversation with Olesya Ostrovska-Liuta
Three Stories of Art and War I коли гуркочуть гармати- музи замовкають The Russian invasion catapulted the Ukrainian art world into...

Constance Uzwyshyn
16 min read


Karl Heinz Bohrer’s ‘A Little Pleasure in Decline. Essays on Britain’
Karl Heinz Bohrer’s A Little Pleasure in Decline. Essays on Britain. [1] My friend Karl Heinz Bohrer died on 4 August 2021. He was seen...

Giles MacDonogh
14 min read


Can Modern Appropriation Art be Reconciled with Copyright Law? A Closer Look at Cariou v. Prince
Artists have drawn ideas, thoughts, and concepts from the works of others for centuries. However, copyright infringement issues frequently arise in the contemporary world. The case discussed in this piece concerns contemporary artworks from the ‘Canal Zone’ series by Richard Prince. Most of the works had photographs by Patrick Cariou incorporated in them, which were previously published in Cariou’s Yes Rasta book. Following an analysis of appropriation art history, postmode

Marysia Opadczuk
15 min read


The Next Civil War: In Conversation with Stephen Marche
Stephen Marche is a novelist, essayist and cultural commentator. He is the author of half a dozen books and has written opinion pieces...

Charlotte Friesen
6 min read


Dublin and Urban Development: In Conversation with Dr. Alison Gilliland
Dr. Alison Gilliland was Dublin’s 353rd Lord Mayor in 2021/2022. She is currently a Dublin City Councillor for the Labour Party,...

Kylie Quinn
14 min read


The Glitz and Glamour of the Metaverse
At the heart of the metaverse stands the vision of an immersive Internet—a gigantic, unified, persistent, and shared realm.[1] To the...

Danielle Jump
14 min read


Foreword to CJLPA 2 by Martin Wilson, Honorary Editor and Chief General Counsel at Phillips
As I read the insightful, entertaining, scholarly, and diverse articles in this issue of The Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics, and Art...

Martin Wilson
4 min read


Heraldic Politics: Why Flags Still Matter
The Estonian flag is a blue-black-white tricolour. Or at least it should be. As a foreign correspondent in 1990, I was puzzled to see...

Edward Lucas
5 min read


Ukrainian Identity in Paint: In Conversation with Oleg Tistol
Oleg Tistol is one of Ukraine’s leading contemporary artists, who works with stereotypes associated with Ukrainian everyday life and...

Constance Uzwyshyn
19 min read


Building the Jam Factory: In Conversation with Bozhena Pelenska
Three Stories of Art and War III коли гуркочуть гармати- музи замовкають The Russian invasion catapulted the Ukrainian art world into crisis, and desperate measures were undertaken to secure staff, collections, and artists. Dreams are deferred but stubborn resilience manifests as a desire to not only protect cultural heritage, but also somehow provide opportunities for continued creativity. Three institutions from all regions of Ukraine—Central, East, and West—reflect on thei

Constance Uzwyshyn
9 min read


Notre-Dame de Paris: Pyrolysis Hypothesis and Fire Safety in Historical Buildings
On Monday 15 April, a fire broke out in the Notre-Dame de Paris. Believers and tourists were invited to leave the cathedral immediately. A race against time was launched which would last more than fifteen hours, defying all human bravery to save the Notre-Dame. Thousands of people gathered around the cathedral this evening to reflect, pray, and witness this catastrophe which none had thought possible to an eight-century old lady that had accompanied people in their joys and s

Rémi Desalbres
6 min read


A Note on the Controversy concerning Eric Gill
On 12 January 2022, there was an attempt to destroy, or at least damage, the statue of Prospero and Ariel installed outside the BBC’s...

Peter Brooke
25 min read


Amir Tataloo, Beyond Resistance and Propaganda: The Appropriation of Iranian Rap Music and the Negotiation of its Legality
Introduction No one knows about Amir Tataloo. Bahman Ghobadi’s film No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009) could be seen as a dynamic...

Casper Alexander Sanderson
35 min read


No Place Like Home: An Emigrant’s Epic Tale
Lesia's poem No Place Like Home explores the shared human longing for a home, not only as a search for a refuge or place to settle, or a...

Lesia Daria
1 min read


Bonnie and Clyde, Schopenhauer, and the Paradox and Problem of Innocence
In the 1967 gangster road movie Bonnie and Clyde , the often-horrific events of the real-life story are cut with ingenuous humour and...

Paul Pickering
5 min read
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