Michael Moore wants to win the war against Trump
The director of Fahrenheit 11/9 explains what Hitler and Trump have in common, and why he’s hopeful for the…
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Europe’s civil war
Desiree Akhavan’s The Bisexual is an empathetic portrait of friendship, dating and work in modern London
Akhavan gently teases her characters, where a lazier comedy would rely on straightforward mockery.
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A view from the border: Ireland on the brink of Brexit
With a declining Catholic church, a gay premier and a politically astute citizenry, Ireland has come of age. But…
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Drinking whisky in the ruins of Idlib, Syria’s last bastion of resistance
When the city falls to the regime, through blood or by negotiation, the war against Assad will, finally, be…
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The problem that gender self-ID is designed to solve is real but the debate has failed
Any prospect of a serious discussion about balancing rights has been squashed by hair-trigger accusations of bigotry.
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The great schism that could pull the EU apart
Europe is once again divided – this time between liberalism’s defenders in the west and north, and states in…
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The return of the Black Power icon and Olympic protester Tommie Smith
“I called my wife and said, ‘Get me some black gloves.’”
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L’homme qui chavire
A new poem by Jamie McKendrick.
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How academic hoaxes can prove helpful
Over ten months, three writers submitted 20 deliberately ridiculous papers to peer-reviewed academic journals specialising in critical theory.
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The president and the pen: letters to Obama
Throughout his presidency, Obama read ten letters from US citizens every day, slipped to him in a purple folder.
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Francis Fukuyama interview: “Socialism ought to come back”
The End of History author on what Karl Marx got right, the rivals to liberal democracy and why he fears a…
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Doris Kearns Goodwin on how to be the greatest American president
Overcome adversity, nurture great ambition, and never aggrandise yourself – leadership lessons, from Lincoln to LBJ.
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Commons Confidential: The DUP plot against Arlene
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Too socialist for the suffragettes: the left’s forgotten women
Early female socialists never figure in any roll-call of great suffragettes, because they objected on principle to a campaign…
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The modernist spirit is alive and well in Gabriel Josipovici’s The Cemetery in Barnes
In this Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel, as elsewhere, Josipovici favours a sort of insidious obliqueness.
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Why Brazil’s far-right challenger Jair Bolsonaro has already won
For decades, Bolsonaro was considered too toxic to be taken seriously – now people wonder if he can be…
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The fresh voices of poets Hannah Sullivan and Danez Smith: two audacious formalists
Sullivan and Smith have little in common, but both are creating urgent, skilful work.
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David Tennant and Jessica Hynes’s new comedy There She Goes is well-meaning, but fails to entertain
Plus: This Country, the mockumentary to beat them all.
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Matteo Garrone’s Dogman: the funny, strange story of a dog groomer
Marcello Fonte is brilliant in this character study of a father of one who runs a pooch parlour in…
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All you need for the perfect sourdough bread is a superhuman starter
As a serial murderer of house plants I’m relieved to find that, in theory at least, “starters are actually really…
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Contemplating my move to the Scooby-Doo house. Will it make me go madder?
The deadline for my removal from the apartment approaches – I have about six weeks.
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It would be a big mistake for May to rely on Labour MPs to push through her Brexit deal
A Brexit that is too soft to secure the support of Tory ultra-Brexiteers will also struggle to retain the support…
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A trip on the Snow White ride, wondering why Disney can’t do villains any more
Somewhere in the 1990s, when Disney was enjoying a major renaissance, the Backstory arrived.
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Danny was ten, but the voice in his head belonged to a threatening older man
Hallucinations in children are more common than you might think.
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Lonely pensioners, cake-based Schadenfreude and how royal weddings help the Tories
If I am offered the new service from Royal Mail as part of the government’s loneliness strategy, I’ll say I’d prefer…
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Leader: Universal Credit was an avoidable disaster
Iain Duncan Smith and his acolytes recklessly dismissed warnings from experts - a preview of the Brexit debacle.
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Barbara Kingsolver Q&A: “The superpower I’ve always wished for is invisibility“
The novelist on trees, feminism, and the perils of climate change.
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