Katie Kitamura’s study of social dynamics
The novelist coolly examines how we interact with each other in a deeply unsettling story of reversals and doubles.
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Jensen Huang: the man who powers AI
The entrepreneur’s microchip company Nvidia has fuelled a tech revolution, but his success is built on failure and suffering.
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To catch a strongman
How justice caught up with the Philippines’ brutal president Rodrigo Duterte.
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The music of resistance
When my Polish great-grandfather was arrested for defying the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz, he took two things with him:…
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How to think in the age of AI
In a world transformed by tech, philosophy is more vital than ever.
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The making of a political mind
Working at the New Statesman in the 1970s, I hid my impure voting record. But as I grow older, I…
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The realism of religion
A Christian revival won’t save the deluded West – but it might teach it to accept its fate.
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Steve Rosenberg: the last man in Moscow
The BBC reporter talks courting Putin, playing piano with Gorbachev, and the rising tensions of a nation at war.
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Medicine’s profit motive
Big Pharma has the NHS in its grip – and patients are paying the price.
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The solitary life of bees
In this dark and fearful spring, they just carry on.
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Good Hang with Amy Poehler is breezy, funny and light
The comedian’s series was conceived in opposition to wellness and therapy-adjacent shows that promise to make us “better” people.
Rachel Reeves bans the A-word
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The resurrections of Piers Morgan
Also this week: a brand-new Observer, and an expensive year for the world’s richest man.
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The Easter Rising and the perils of mythology
The IRA wielded 1916 to legitimise their own campaign of violence in the Troubles.
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“Late adulthood” helped me reclaim retirement
I have decided to step down as dean of King’s College, Cambridge. A whole vista of reinventing, relaunching and reimagining…
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The dark side of the Moomins
Tove Jansson’s beloved stories, which turn 80 this year, are not cute: they are angry tales of apocalypse and breakdown.
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Adolescent masculinity is a puzzle much older than smartphones
What Stand by Me reveals about boyhood, and what Martin Amis and Julian Barnes taught me about life at the…
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How Gatsby deceived America
A century after its publication, the novel’s glory and brutality persist in the national psyche.
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Adriana Brownlee: “As soon as you think of records, it gets dangerous”
The mountaineer on climbing the world’s highest peaks.
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Letter of the week: Pay as you learn
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