I was on holiday in a French farmhouse with vineyards all around when the fire came for me
As my family and I abandoned our car and ran to safety through a burning wood, I felt as…
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The Great Betrayal
Jeanette Winterson’s vision of the future of AI is messianic – but unconvincing
In 12 Bytes, the British author has fallen for and colluded with the Big Data hype, and it is hard…
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Reviewed in short: New books from Alex Renton, Rupa Marya and Raj Patel, Elif Shafak, and Michelle Zauner
Blood Legacy by Renton, Inflamed by Marya and Patel, The Island of Missing Trees by Shafak and Crying in H Mart by…
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The NS Poem: Riches
A new poem by Mat Riches.
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Why Theodor Adorno and the Frankfurt School failed to change the world
The Frankfurt School has been blamed for starting the culture wars that destroyed American values. Would we do well…
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Living in Fernando Pessoa’s world
How the Portuguese writer’s multiple identities pre-empted the modern condition.
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How the Mr Men made their millions
When an ad man turned an idle doodle into a children’s book 50 years ago, it was the start…
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The dreamy nocturnes of Donato Creti
The descendant of the great 17th-century Bolognese painters studied the solar system – but his career remained earthbound.
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The rise and fall of digital Corbynism
The British left has the internet tools to generate a lasting movement – if only it knew how to use…
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The age of the megafire
Why the forest fires raging across Europe, North America and Australia are a sign of the world to come.
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