Culture

Summer Reading

24 July 2015

As much of the world’s population takes a summer break, plenty of reading will take place at the beach. Despite frequent predictions about the death of the printed book, however, more than 80% of those titles will be read the old-fashioned way, a higher percentage than last year, as global eBook sales plateau.

The Price of Art

05 May 2015

What exactly is the fair price of an asset?

Speaking "Swiss"

17 March 2015

Multilingual countries – think Spain, Canada or Belgium – often experience tension over how those languages coexist, especially where they are bound up with regional identity. The dividing lines are less fraught, but if anything more complex, in Switzerland, a country with no fewer than four official languages.

Mons in the Spotlight

27 January 2015

The cultural life of Mons has long been known for its annual re-enactment of St. George’s slaying of the dragon, but this year the southern Belgian city will be in the spotlight for a different reason: it has been designated as a 2015 European Capital of Culture, along with Plzen – of brewing fame – in the Czech Republic.