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David Cameron’s downfall

Charming, talented and disarmingly reasonable, Cameron kept on winning – until he lost everything.

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The Hollywood films of the Eighties paint a portrait of a schizophrenic, semi-free society.

By Jackson Arn

This is a work full of pills, porn and pseudo-nuance – almost-but-not-quite clever.

By Leo Robson

Ducks, Newburyport is asking us to imagine what a total, unboundaried empathy with another person could feel like.

By Sarah Ditum

The godmother of punk on talking to Dylan, Trump and a snapping turtle.

By Kate Mossman

From Mussolini to Papa Doc Duvalier, how image and theatre give tyrants their power.

By Sue Prideaux

Christianity is dismissed as a fairy tale but its assumptions underpin the modern secular world.

By John Gray

Was the most recognisable writer of her generation little more than a high-class intellectual con-artist?

By Leo Robson