Re-examining the life of David Ben-Gurion
Ben-Gurion was a divisive leader, an uninspiring and humourless speaker, but still a revered and visionary giant to many Israelis…
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Jenny Slate’s charismatic vulnerability
In her new show Stage Fright, Slate mines both her irresistible stage presence and her willingness to be open with…
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Vesna Main’s Good Day? is sharp and quick-witted meta-fiction
This Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted book, told entirely in unattributed dialogue, offers a fast-paced, intimate discussion of sex work, gender bias, blame…
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Mark Haddon’s The Porpoise: effortlessly inventive and absorbing
Mark Haddon’s Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel draws on stories from the ancient world, medieval literature and Shakespeare and makes a wild…
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The making of #MeToo
The behind-the-scenes story of Harvey Weinstein’s fall.
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The man who animated Disney
How Robert Iger – a personable and vulnerable radical – became the most successful CEO of the past decade.
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I used to cringe at Irish novels, plays and television, but one book changed all that
The Butcher Boy, published in 1992, was a turning point for Irish literature.
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The after effects of Northern Ireland’s “cash for ash” scandal
Northern Ireland’s RHI scandal feels so implausible that, in his new account of the fall of devolution, Sam McBride feels…
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