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The secret lives of Katherine Mansfield

A century after the writer’s death, a new biography shows how she withstood colonial prejudice and terminal illness to produce…

How the world turned global

Jonathan Sperber’s The Age of Interconnection surveys the second half of the 20th century but fails to explain the ideas…

Letter from Ukraine: new year, same war

The Ukrainian novelist writes about ringing in 2023 amid drone attacks.

The NS Poem: Tender

A new poem by Sarah Fletcher.

Nietzsche, narwhals and the burden of consciousness

Justin Gregg’s witty exploration of animal intelligence is a useful guide – but there is more to human life than…

With the buccal fat fixation we have reached peak insecurity

This year, let’s make a resolution to accept, rather than “improve”, our bodies.

This England: Santa jam

This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…

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At Christmas I meet a kindred spirit – we both have more to look back on than forward to

The family’s new dog took to sitting at my feet and looking up at me, as if to say: We…

Fifty years after joining the European Communities, Britain still doesn’t know what it is or wants

Britain’s unresolved Europe question is inseparable from its unresolved England question.

Susan Cooper’s land of shadows

BBC Sounds brings to life the folkloric fantasy The Dark is Rising, with vivid and immersive storytelling.

The Britpop nostalgia complex

The writer who christened the genre watched its droll ingenuity become boorish excess. Is it ripe for resurrection?

Juliet Davenport’s Q&A: “We humans have a lemming tendency”

The green entrepreneur on why communication matters in science and how we’re being let down by our politicians.

The sad homogeneity of the “easy peeler”

This vague description suggests the fruit was selected for the thickness of its skin, rather than the juiciness or flavour…

Howard Jacobson’s Diary: Escaping an icy fate in the Highlands, celebrity-spotting in London, and my soft spot for the King

Finding poetic consolation on a quest for snow, solace and Santa.

Last year ended as disastrously as it began. So why am I already nostalgic for it?

The past year appears to me as a series of soft-focus montage moments; less pain, more days of celebration and…

Will more Red Wall Tories defect to Labour as funds dry up?

Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.

Letter of the week: Growth to nowhere

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Can Rishi Sunak survive the wrath of the right?

This year will be one in which Boris Johnson and Liz Truss’s supporters exact revenge upon the Prime Minister.

“This country doesn’t invest in its own future”: Torsten Bell on why the UK is being hit hardest

The Resolution Foundation head explains why the average British household is forecast to be worse off than its Slovenian counterpart…