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Nov 27, 2025
Living without Radiohead is not to live at all; for many, it would be to die. The question really is to be or not to be. Putting any irony in front of these facts would betray all...
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Nov 18, 2025
We dismiss teenagers as soon as we cease to be them. We don’t care to speak their language; our script is ready-made – and useless. First we tell them none of their...
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Nov 10, 2025
It is one of the highest prizes in fiction which is one of the highest things in life. The Booker Prize is tomorrow. I like the Booker and not just because kicking me out of my...
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Sep 19, 2025
The two stars of the new drama Black Rabbit, Jude Law and Jason Bateman, are respectively the hero and the nemesis of the male receding hairline. Their characters are...
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Sep 1, 2025
Taylor Swift will, one day, not be the most famous woman in the world. Pop music will enter a post-Swift twilight. In the darker sky, three new lights will begin to define...
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Aug 27, 2025
RF Kuang keeps them coming: the 29 year-old has published her sixth novel. But things are different with Katabasis. For one thing, Kuang is now among the most popular authors in...
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Aug 22, 2025
In a fair world, how we behave would determine how we are treated. But life often feels the other way round. Sorry, Baby, starring debut director Eva Victor, concerns the pain...
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Aug 8, 2025
Why do we say “pardon my French” when we swear? Some say the expression comes from the time when our ruling class spoke French. A lofty Norman, snooty Plantagenet or...
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Jun 20, 2025
Many would proclaim a Radiohead-Shakespeare fusion a coming together of the two greatest miracles of consciousness. Others would roll their eyes. On Thursday 12 June,...
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Jun 12, 2025
Everyone has cracks; we hear that’s how the light gets in. Adeline Virginia Stephen wanted a life flooded with light. Marrying her husband, Leonard Woolf, in 1912, she said she...
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Jun 10, 2025
Tales of Cruising London: Sex on the Heath and Other Places, by James Hatcher. All Google searches led to Tales of Cruising London: Sex on the Heath and Other Places, by James...
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May 26, 2025
In middle age and closing in on national treasure status, Robert Macfarlane is as close to greatness and far from death as he has ever been. It’s a far cry from his perilous...
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Apr 11, 2025
Early in The Great Gatsby, a nightingale is spotted on the lawn outside the Buchanans’. There aren’t nightingales in America. Daisy calls it “romantic”...
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Mar 28, 2025
An out-of-work football manager has dropped a fresh batch of stone tablets and the House of Commons has found a workaround for Netflix’s password-sharing restrictions, so,...
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Mar 14, 2025
Gracie Abrams was three months old when the O2 Arena’s dome was opened to celebrate the new millennium. Back then, most of the 20,000 people who came to the O2 to see her...
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Jan 21, 2025
Tuesday will be seventy-five years since the death of George Orwell. Quite minor a date, but so massive a figure – patron saint of English decency, balletic navigator of...
Nov 27, 2025Living without Radiohead is not to live at all; for many, it would be to die. The question really is to be or not to be. Putting any irony in front of these facts would betray all...
Nov 18, 2025We dismiss teenagers as soon as we cease to be them. We don’t care to speak their language; our script is ready-made – and useless. First we tell them none of their...
Nov 10, 2025It is one of the highest prizes in fiction which is one of the highest things in life. The Booker Prize is tomorrow. I like the Booker and not just because kicking me out of my...
Sep 19, 2025The two stars of the new drama Black Rabbit, Jude Law and Jason Bateman, are respectively the hero and the nemesis of the male receding hairline. Their characters are...
Sep 1, 2025Taylor Swift will, one day, not be the most famous woman in the world. Pop music will enter a post-Swift twilight. In the darker sky, three new lights will begin to define...
Aug 27, 2025RF Kuang keeps them coming: the 29 year-old has published her sixth novel. But things are different with Katabasis. For one thing, Kuang is now among the most popular authors in...
Aug 22, 2025In a fair world, how we behave would determine how we are treated. But life often feels the other way round. Sorry, Baby, starring debut director Eva Victor, concerns the pain...
Aug 8, 2025Why do we say “pardon my French” when we swear? Some say the expression comes from the time when our ruling class spoke French. A lofty Norman, snooty Plantagenet or...
Jun 12, 2025Everyone has cracks; we hear that’s how the light gets in. Adeline Virginia Stephen wanted a life flooded with light. Marrying her husband, Leonard Woolf, in 1912, she said she...
Jun 10, 2025Tales of Cruising London: Sex on the Heath and Other Places, by James Hatcher. All Google searches led to Tales of Cruising London: Sex on the Heath and Other Places, by James...
May 26, 2025In middle age and closing in on national treasure status, Robert Macfarlane is as close to greatness and far from death as he has ever been. It’s a far cry from his perilous...
Apr 11, 2025Early in The Great Gatsby, a nightingale is spotted on the lawn outside the Buchanans’. There aren’t nightingales in America. Daisy calls it “romantic”...
Mar 28, 2025An out-of-work football manager has dropped a fresh batch of stone tablets and the House of Commons has found a workaround for Netflix’s password-sharing restrictions, so,...
Mar 14, 2025Gracie Abrams was three months old when the O2 Arena’s dome was opened to celebrate the new millennium. Back then, most of the 20,000 people who came to the O2 to see her...
Jan 21, 2025Tuesday will be seventy-five years since the death of George Orwell. Quite minor a date, but so massive a figure – patron saint of English decency, balletic navigator of...