Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ plays tricks with the mind

17 August 2024 9:00 am

First published in 1798, Coleridge’s masterpiece, about a man obsessed with retelling his story, has obsessed readers ever since, because it never offers up closure

biden basement

Hidin’ Biden’s basement convention

7 August 2020 3:45 am

Not everyone appreciates the extent to which the Democrats pushing Joe Biden for president are students of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.…

Georges Barbier’s imaginative illustration of an opium den c. 1921

In the garden of good and evil: the power of the poppy

3 November 2018 9:00 am

America has for years been struggling with a shortage of the drugs it uses to execute people, yet it was…