
Richard Flanagan Q&A: “My mother hoped I might make a good plumber“
The author on growing up in Tasmania, his favourite cricketer, and politics as a shadow play.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
The author on growing up in Tasmania, his favourite cricketer, and politics as a shadow play.
ByIn Grenada, I could wipe the Spurs result from my mind.
ByShe was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter in 2015 over the death from sepsis of a six-year-old boy.
ByThe chairs in the British Library reading rooms are just about comfy enough for sleep.
ByThanks to universal credit, our country needs it.
ByThere are wonderful little jokes hidden amid the slapstick.
ByBryan Cranston stuns in Ivo van Hove’s dazzling theatre update of the 1976 film.
ByWater is second only to outer-space for attracting rapt sub-poetry.
ByIn this BBC Storyville documentary, Danny Ben-Moshe tells an extraordinary tale.
ByIn Mark Wahlberg and Mel Gibson, the festive romp offers two case studies with different outcomes.
ByFinnish artist Tove Jansson was far more than just her children’s books, as this retrospective at Dulwich Picture Gallery shows.
ByNicholas Shakespeare manages to evoke tension in an old tale by understanding its human drama.
ByThe magazine mogul is a diamond of a woman – but also an industrial tool, drilling her way up.
ByNature is always more complex than we expect, and Sacks’s gift is to convey this sense of wonder.
ByTwo books, Alt-America and Making Sense of the Alt-Right, explore a world of white resentment.
BySince the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Iran has become ever more powerful in the region. But now…
ByAnglo-Australian sport is invariably played with unusual and sometimes disturbing fervour.
ByThe continent’s old crises have not been resolved.
ByMPs are wasting a chance for renewal.
ByDigital media is not, and will likely never be, anywhere near as lucrative as technology.
ByThe former Labour foreign secretary returns to a troubled and anxious Britain, and urges his party to step up.
ByYour weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
ByIt has been suggested some escaped from Shepperton Studios during the filming of The African Queen in 1951.
ByWe can turn this around, and we ought to – not just for our own good, but for everyone…
ByAs the conflict in Yemen rages, there are plenty of signs that times are changing.
ByThe author of How to Survive a Plague, winner of the Baillie Gifford prize, on an emotional week.
ByHow can we really heal the rift between young and old?
ByThe Chancellor is not a bad boss, but the Treasury is weak.
ByI heard an Oxford professor argue that, far from being mad, the cult leader had a lucidly logical mind.
ByRobert Mugabe's successor is more pragmatic, but no keener on loosening his party's grip on power.
ByFinally, Zimbabwe has a realistic opportunity to repair its shattered economy and escape fear and repression.
By