American Fiction is a bold and bracing satire of publishing’s race problem
Cord Jefferson’s adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure shows the “African-American experience” as far richer than it’s often allowed…
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Marcus du Sautoy Q&A: “As a child, I planned to marry Top Cat”
The mathematician and author on his love of symmetry, classical music and board games.
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Lessons from The World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig’s 1942 portrait of the late Austro-Hungarian empire remains a stark warning against taking national security for granted.
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Subscriber of the week: Peter Phillips
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Feminism has always been complicated – just ask the women of the Seventies
A short film at Tate Britain is a reminder of the glorious energy and contradictions of the women’s liberation movement.
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The reward for looking after my mother? A dose of norovirus
I am floored by GI problems – which is what we people who have doctors in the family call gastrointestinal…
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The Rhapsody in Blue revolution
First performed 100 years ago, George Gershwin’s great experiment defined the jazz age and took popular music in a new…
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The journalist vs the trolls
In Marianna Spring’s series Why Do You Hate Me?, the BBC social media correspondent finds fellowship and reconciliation amid the…
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Why a 99 per cent mortgage means a high proportion of trouble
Buyers who take up the offer may well find themselves stuck with higher repayments – and unable to switch to…
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From Adam Phillips to Kate Manne: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Pity by Andrew McMillan and Breaking Through by Katalin Karikó.
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The politics of Generation Grime
British rappers such as Stormzy and Dave have ideologies forged in a time of austerity and protest.
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Forget secateurs. A vivid imagination is a gardener’s most important tool
To garden is to live in anticipation of the seasons yet to come, to build endless versions of the first…
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Daniel Freeman: “Psychosis is seen as scary. It’s the last taboo”
“Professor Paranoia” on what works in psychiatry, and why he’s asking patients to put on virtual reality headsets.
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The conservative paradox
The Tories face electoral oblivion, having failed to grasp that voters look to government for a shield against insecurity. Is…
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The danger of deepfakes goes far beyond Taylor Swift
Why has it taken an attack on a global star for politicians and regulators to get serious about protecting women…
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How to stop the far right in Europe
The rise of anti-migrant populism is a metric for the EU’s policy failures. Address these, and it can be reversed.
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Keir Starmer has conquered his party. Now what?
Within Labour, the leader is “lord of all he surveys”. But he still needs to define what that is exactly.
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A Tory reckoning
Rishi Sunak’s continual changes of strategy have only deepened his party’s malaise.
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The dirty half-dozen: Tory right divides to rule, again
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Letter of the week: Pride and pedagogy
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