Marina Abramović turned attention seeking into a modern art form
Reading Abramović’s memoir is rather like watching EastEnders: I didn’t learn anything about performance art reading, but I can’t deny I…
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The Trump apocalypse
The upchuck of bigotry against the high court is no surprise – it’s been brewing since 23 June
It’s not enough for the Prime Minister to decry the abuse directed toward the judiciary while “even-handedly” trumpeting freedom…
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The hygge of Oasis: why I find the band strangely comforting
There’s little rage or doubt in the music of Liam and Noel Gallagher.
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Brexit will leave Britain poorer and smaller – but Europe will feel the hurt just as much
The EU has been pummelled by crises for years and these days the mood in Brussels is appalling. What…
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In Larazus, David Bowie knowingly prepared his own creative shroud
As Bowie seems to have known his terminal cancer prognosis for much of the period of working on the…
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Commons confidential: The new Brexit elite
Has Liam Fox been eyeing up deals with South Korea and the Gulf states?
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The irrational rationality of Jonathan Swift
Swift believed that humans have an innate capacity for reason, which they fail to use. But did he take the…
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Why does the person you fell in love with at 20 never seem to age?
My old flame still turns heads – sometimes you can actually hear neck muscles twanging.
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My pagan prayers at the turn of the Celtic year
Hallowe’en, or All Saints’ Eve, or el Día de los Muertos, or – as I pointed out to everyone’s…
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Labour should be making mincemeat out of the Tories’ infighting and Brexit disarray
My week, from gasping at Theresa May, bashing Brexit and why I won’t run the marathon.
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“Writing is everything and I am nothing”: the vanishing acts of Elena Ferrante
Frantumaglia: a Writer’s Journey is a collection of letters, interviews and pieces from 1991 to this year, and explore the writer’s…
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In South Yorkshire, no-one notices an ex-miner and schoolboy reading poetry aloud
It’s 1971 and I’m 15 years old, reading Dylan Thomas. Then I run in to George.
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How Lula’s party fell from grace: the toppling of the Brazilian left
Brazil’s municipal elections were an disaster for the centre-left Partido dos Trabalhadores. But for some, the party’s downfall was…
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At Wembley Stadium, I’m like a kid on a school outing
The place may scare our players, but it’s a great place for a picnic. Just hold the prawn sandwiches.
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“This is bigger than just Brexit”: how Gina Miller held the government to account over the EU
She learned Article 50 off by heart and faced off against Nigel Farage on The Andrew Marr Show. But Miller says…
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If there’s any hint of compromise, the Brexit revolutionaries will not spare Theresa May
The Prime Minister could yet become the target of the Leavers’ outrage.
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A “remote tower” could let you land at Heathrow – with air traffic control 600 miles away
This new technology already exists, and is part of a quiet revolution in how planes land.
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Mike McCormack wins the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize for his novel Solar Bones
A Goldsmiths Prize judge on the third Irish winner of the award for innovative fiction, run in association with…
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With Donald Trump, foreign policy is in uncharted territory – and there’s little the UK can do
We are dependent on the “leader of the free world”, so our government, like many others, will have to…
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In the age of reaction, a neo-fascist has taken the White House
The election of Donald Trump to the US presidency is yet another blow to the liberal world order.
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Swing Time is a fun novel, but the steps are a little too complex
Zadie Smith’s new novel is enjoyable but tries to do too much. Next time, she should slow down, lean back…
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Alex Nunns’ new book is insightful – but can’t settle the myth of Corbyn
Corbyn gets the court biography treatment in The Candidate, yet the book has little to say about the world…
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People will sneer that The Crown is for boobies or Brexit types – but they’re wrong
Peter Morgan’s new Netflix series is a dark, sometimes comic dive into the psyche of royalty. Plus: Close to the…
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For a film about space, Arrival is surprisingly parochial
The appearance of extraterrestrial craft, a dead daughter who used to sculpt aliens: Arrival’s forced mystique fails to land.
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Who is to blame for Donald Trump’s victory?
A narrative that attributes Trump’s triumph to the “working class” forgets the role of racism, sexism and the right-wing…
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Mike McCormack: “British fiction is dominated by an intellectual conservatism”
The 2016 Goldsmiths Prize winner on engineers, Solar Bones, and why Irish writers have to translate themselves.
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