Peter Carey Q&A: “Heroes are dangerous types in need of a damn good biographer“
The novelist talks Donald Trump, childhood heroes and architectural fantasies.
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Back in London, briefly – and taking my unholy desires to a place of piety and virtue
“I wonder if I am going to be accosted and asked why I have forgotten my beard and my shtreime”.
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Technology has hugely aided doctors… but it’s not without its embarrassing glitches
While using a voice-recognition app, it became apparent that “Dad” was an unfortunate translation of the Polish word for “male member”.
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Last year’s resolution for a reading diary offers an excellent reminder of everything I read in 2017
Struck down with an inevitable flu over the festive period, our writer recounted the books she enjoyed over the past…
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Perhaps Donald Trump and his bilious biographer Michael Wolff deserve each other
While Wolff’s book Fire and Fury is undeniably riveting, it is also, in part, fake news.
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Punch is a survivor’s drink – and one that cannot be drunk alone
So convival is traditional punch that even its five ingredients party together in the bowl.
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A case of evil consonants: the World Book Club is uniting readers around the globe
It’s heartening, on a dreary January day, to know that someone in Somaliland is also tuning in to the BBC…
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Channel 4’s Kiri is complex story of race, power, privilege and social service budgets
Much like his last drama, National Treasure, Jack Thorne’s latest series concerns scandal and its aftermath.
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is homely yet violent – a greetings card spattered with gore
Beneath the little flecks of brain and bone, the Hallmark logo is unmistakable.
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Why you should watch clever coming-of-age comedy Derry Girls
Channel 4’s new series set in 1990s Derry, follows 16-year-old Erin and friends, as they navigate the trouble with being…
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Art for the masses: the working-class roots of The South Bank Show
Forty years of making the arts accessible for all.
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The free-wheeling life and wild, weird fiction of the cult 1960s author Ann Quin
In her writing, as in her life, Quin was drawn to experiences of difference, extremity and disorientation.
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The NS Poem: Address to the Bethlehem Female Seminary, Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1742
A new poem by Tim Liardet.
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The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat: a remarkable anthology of Nordic short stories
Editors Sjón and Ted Hodgkinson show both the vigour and variety of the short story form in the North.
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Nicola Pugliese’s Malacqua captures the tropes of 1970s Italy
Pugliese writes of a semi-apocalyptic event – sudden, fatal floods and several days of prolonged rain in Naples – with hyper-realist…
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No life, no support: the wit, wisdom and horror stories of junior doctors’ memoirs
This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay and Your Life in My Hands by Rachel Clarke offer an…
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How terrorists and provocateurs are using social media against western democracies
On the digital front line are guilt-ridden Russian trolls, young women lured by Isis and Facebook Sherlocks in suburbia.
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The Wolf is a profound account detailing the return of the world’s most enduring carnivore
Nate Blakeslee’s book is as much a report on the deep divisions within contemporary America as it is a tale…
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The reputation game: how to control the way we appear in the eyes of others
From Harvey Weinstein to Taylor Swift, celebrities have become their own PR agents – and we are following their lead.
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How Brexit has reopened old wounds on both sides of the Irish border
The Irish Question has returned and endangered the peace process.
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Margrethe Vestager: the EU commissioner who’s taming the Tech Giants
Once dubbed “the worst politician in Denmark”, Vestager is on a mission to hold Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon…
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Michael Wolff: a dandy hitman and the very best gossip in the business
GQ editor Dylan Jones opens up on his friend Wolff, who The New York Times branded the world’s most famous journalist…
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Johann Hari: the man who fell to earth and took on depression
The disgraced former journalist uses his new book, Lost Connections, to argue the mental illness’ causes are ignored.
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The slow death of the literary novel: the sales crisis afflicting fiction
The percentage of authors earning a full-time living solely from writing dropped from 40 per cent in 2005 to…
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The Bennites’ revenge: how Jeremy Corbyn and his allies survived political exile
The Labour left never made the mistake of deferring either to Washington or to Rupert Murdoch or Paul Dacre.
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Commons confidential: comrades at war
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Why the Iranian regime should fear youthful revolt
Across the Middle East the lack of jobs, particularly for the under-thirties, is creating a rage that always simmers…
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“Let’s colonise MySpace!”: inside the alt-right’s internet
An echo chamber of hate is being created as the far-right flee Facebook and Twitter.
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The BBC’s latest head of news has inherited a tough series of defining decisions
The wider battle facing the newly appointed director, Fran Unsworth, is simply to make the case for BBC News.
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Donald Trump is half-Caligula, half the Toddler-in-Chief
Michael Wolff’s book may have done little to hasten the end of the Trump era, but it’s shown the President…
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Sarah Sands’ Diary: on having continuing faith in the BBC despite pay gap anger
The editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme watches in wonder at the standards the corporation is expected to maintain.
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The Tories’ grip on power will remain tenuous while Theresa May refuses to groom a successor
The reshuffle did nothing to replenish the supplies of possible post-May candidates from either the right or left of…
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Toby Young’s father complex: the adolescent rebellion that never ended
At 54-years-old, the journalist seemingly still argues with his late father, the composer of Labour’s 1945 election manifesto, in his…
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Leader: An American nightmare – and our thoughts on Toby Young
Journalist Michael Wolff’s excoriating book Fire and Fury offers a dismal “inside” portrait of Mr Trump’s dysfunctional White House.
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