Given what it sets out to do, it’s hard to fault The Thursday Murder Club. The sentences flow smoothly, the jokes ...

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The first hour of Anora, Sean Baker says, belongs to the genre of romantic comedy. This makes interesting sense if ...

As peripatetic​ as he was, Fred Sparks, who was then a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, didn’t cover the ...

You might think that a novelist who works in more than one language would want language itself to become conceptual, ...

I t had been ​ twenty years since my last research trip to the British Library when, in November last year, I received an email with the subject line: ‘Important information about our recent cyber ...

The polycrisis that is unfolding demands not a return to the status quo but urgent, progressive answers both at home ...

What is it about the body that resists plain description? When we discuss our bodies, we evoke other things: the body as machine, possibly malfunctioning; the body as computer, infinitely programmable ...

In this feature-length documentary, Anthony Wilks traces the connections between the events of Hobsbawm’s life and the history he told, from his teenage years in Germany as Hitler came to power and ...

The great auk was a flightless, populous and reportedly delicious bird, once found widely across the rocky outcrops of the North Atlantic. By the 1860s it was extinct, its decline sharpened by ...

The authorities in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, have been de-Russifying its street names. Instead of commemorating an avant-garde Russian communist writer who killed himself in the 1930s, ...