The NS Q&A: Susan Hill on North Korea, Tony Benn and Say Yes to the Dress
The award-winning novelist and publisher answers our questions.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
The award-winning novelist and publisher answers our questions.
ByRevenge is a dish best served cold from a wicker hamper.
ByThe week in the media, from Osborne’s irrelevant editorship to the unrepentant McGuinness and Vera Lynn’s stirring ballads.
ByLabour's “Gang of Four” are brought to life brilliantly at the Donmar Warehouse.
ByVery quickly, it becomes clear that loneliness doesn’t suit me.
ByTom Watson says it is destroying Labour. Its supporters say it is a vital force for change. Our correspondent…
ByHow the ideas of two pre-war intellectual refugees – the radical Herbert Marcuse and the reactionary Eric Voegelin –…
ByFor centuries, we have built replacements for ourselves. But are we ready to understand the implications?
ByThe cult author speaks on the sudden rebirth of American activism and writing “the book of his life”.
ByThree new books reflect on the complexities, and challenges, faced by Muslims in Britain.
ByOsborne will use the Standard as a rival power base to the May government. But can he do the job…
BySteve Bannon, the US president’s chief strategist, wants to destroy the state.
ByOur species has declared war on the night and sleep has been the victim.
By“So if you don’t like it so much,” he says, “why don’t you leave?” And his tone suggests that…
ByMcGuinness died with his ultimate goal of a united Ireland arguably closer to realisation than at any other time…
ByIn Katie Kitamura’s novel, it is the distance between the narrator’s two selves that causes her most discomfort.
ByI squinted. Apart from a gleam of turquoise, the view was of one big cloud. Slowly the words started to form…
ByIt takes charisma to pull off abandoning hits halfway through.
ByAcross the top of the screen floated a banner, pulled by a little aeroplane: IN ARSENE WE TRUST.
ByRadio 2’s 100th-birthday tribute reveals how Lynn was forced to change her voice.
ByHe throws away burger buns and scrapes the top off his pizza: why Donald Trump’s lack of interest in…
ByHaunted by his time in the trenches and disturbed by the modern marketplace, Jones formed a world-view full of…
ByThe success of late developers proves that our obsession with early achievement is wrong.
ByA man we’d thought destined for certain death reappeared, alive and kicking. Even as my brain raced, I was grinning.
ByBased on David Grann’s book about the British explorer Percy Fawcett, the film is a beautiful, diligent portrait. Plus:…
ByLabour’s divisions have rendered it unfit for government at a moment of profound political change.
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