Mexico buys an estimated 15 million tonnes of genetically modified maize from the US. Even so, its production is minor compared to the other varieties present in Mexico’s rich and varied diet. It is the other way around in the United States: it is the most exported and almost […]
In Focus
In Focus
From the mpox virus to the old cholera
It was detected for the first time in 1970, in a nine-year-old boy in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a region where the virus had been eradicated in 1968. Since then, the majority of cases have been found in rural regions of tropical forests in the Congo River basin, […]
Pleasure and pain in equal measure
Readers know that this feisty study of six of Keats’s poems promises something fresh when the author announces in her preface that any serious reading of Keats begins with the section on ‘Private Property and Communism’ from Marx’s “Economic and philosophical manuscripts of 1844”. Sean Sheehan Anahid Nersessian’s […]
State vs. Church
Why European courts don’t cut churches much slack during confinement. Darrin Burgess When Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York ordered a second wave of lockdowns last October to stem the contagion of Covid-19, he evoked the now-familiar distinction between essential and non-essential venues, and put severe restrictions on […]
Recovering the Sacred in art
In the time between times, between lockdowns, I went to an art exhibition in Whitechapel Gallery, of work by Kai Althoff. Steve Latham A German-born artist from Cologne, now resident in the US, Althoff’s paintings are largely figurative. This is appropriate, given the Whitechapel’s championing of a revival […]
















