Kraftwerk’s music for a Europe without end
Born out of Germany’s industrial heartland, Kraftwerk’s epic electronic pop did not just soundtrack a decade: it created a global…
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Colum McCann’s Apeirogon: an ambitious work of “documentary fiction”
This novel based in fact spans the divide of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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In praise of history’s difficult women
The story of the fight for gender quality is littered with unlikeable feminists. But do we need to like them…
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An alternative Middle East
In 1979 the forces that have left the Islamic world in chaos were unleashed – but it didn’t have to…
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What I learned at the Ayn Rand conference
In San Francisco, devotees of the US philosopher and author assembled to revere her doctrine of selfishness. But if we expand the…
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Eimear McBride: “When you experience grief as a child, death is always really close”
The novelist on grief, politics and the dumbing-down of fiction.
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The pseudoscience of hate
Genetics does not recognise race as a biologically meaningful concept, but that doesn’t stop racists invoking its findings.
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Jenny Offill’s Weather captures the anxiety and absurdity of the 21st century
Offill’s third novel zooms from the micro to the macro, taking the form of musings, jokes, trivia, confessions, facts, tick-box…
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