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What video games taught me

A collection of essays on gaming confirms the rich complexity of an art form that remains widely misunderstood.

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For readers and writers, novels require enormous effort. Why do we persist in seeking meaning in their pages?

By Helen Oyeyemi

The history of the elegy reveals how the poetry of grief has the power to trouble, console and unite.

By Rowan Williams

Children are ravenously hungry for ideas. We writers have a duty to provide them.

By Katherine Rundell

In creating wild and strange new worlds, the German film-maker reveals the truth of our own.

By John Gray

Frank Trentmann’s history reveals how modern Germany found a new moral purpose after the horrors of Nazism.

By Brendan Simms

Psychoanalyst Darian Leader’s study of the motivations behind sex and desire is irredeemably bonkers.

By Sophie McBain

A century ago The Radetzky March captured the break-up of Austria-Hungary. Could it also predict the fall of Vladimir Putin’s…

By Jeremy Cliffe