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My father and other animals

At 92, the acclaimed childrens author Judith Kerr seems as vital as anyone half her age. (This interview was originally published…

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The Chernobyl nuclear disaster was as much a symbol of a failed ideology as of flawed design and technology.

By Philip Ball

The remarkable career of the celebrity diplomat and hyperactive emblem of the Pax Americana.

By John Bew

Dr Johnson and Boswell recruited the age’s most original thinkers and turned conversation into an art form.

By Ophelia Field

The Tory MP’s celebration of the Victorian age is plodding, laborious, humourless and barely readable.

By Richard J Evans

In 1987, the conservative journalist Peregrine Worsthorne observed: “Much of the stability of this country depended on the Labour Party, which,…

By George Eaton

Thomas Harris’s latest novel is a welcome departure from his narrow and numbing obsession with Lecter.

By Leo Robson

The author of American Psycho is back on the publicity trail, courting controversy and selling his “vision”. But what – if anything…

By Erica Wagner