Francis Ford Coppola’s new film may be his greatest delusion
The script of Megalopolis is unspeakable, its tone baffling and its world makes no sense.
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Labour’s route to recovery
Public confidence is falling quickly. The party must do far more to win it back.
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Letter of the week: Growth mindset
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Starmer wisely resists going to watch Arsenal vs Man City
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The fraught history of Christianity and sex
Diarmaid MacCulloch shows how for centuries the Church has tried to resolve the tension between sacred and profane.
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Even the most dedicated gardeners go through times of growing apathy
It’s taboo to say, but I’ve felt a disconnect from the thing I pour hours of labour into.
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This England: Fur evaders
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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I’m back on my bike – and I have plenty to say to my fellow road users
Cycling without headphones has made it clear how not under-my-breath my under-my-breath commentary really is.
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Sally Rooney: “We’re trapped in a cultural moment”
The author of Intermezzo talks to Fintan O’Toole about living with patriarchy, writing good sex, and the post-religious world.
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Starmer the grave
The Prime Minister’s grim speech was short on sunlit uplands, but its promise was serious.
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Eliza Filby: “We’ve had 30 years of over-parenting”
The historian and writer is revolutionising our understanding of Britain's inheritance economy.
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Apples Never Fall is as sexy as a glass of barley water
Annette Bening and Sam Neill star in an American tennis soap that misses every shot.
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Sally Rooney’s adventures in style
In Intermezzo, the Irish writer swaps polished wit and graphic sex for something deeper, messier and more mature.
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Keir Starmer’s union problem
The government wants to reset its relationship with organised labour – but history shows this won’t be an easy task.
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How Goethe sold his soul to Faust
A new biography by AN Wilson shows how the playwright, poet, scientist and statesman poured himself into his greatest work.
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The NS Poem: She seems to me (after Sappho)
A new poem by Kim Moore.
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From Dan Jones to William Boyd: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Warsaw Tales by Antonia Lloyd Jones and Emperor of the Seas by Jack Weatherford.
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Paul Gauguin’s art monster myth
Sue Prideaux’s biography of the unruly French painter shows his story was more complicated than that of colonial seducer.
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David Spiegelhalter Q&A: “I can’t think of anything worse than eternity”
The statistician on Samuel Pepys's London and his love of wild swimming.
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