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Given what it sets out to do, it’s hard to fault The Thursday Murder Club. The sentences flow smoothly, the jokes ...

The first hour of Anora, Sean Baker says, belongs to the genre of romantic comedy. This makes interesting sense if ...

Fred Sparks had lots of readers. Wire services bragged when they bagged him and dispatched his dispatches to dozens ...

Keir Starmer described Badenoch’s election as a ‘proud moment for our country’. He presumably meant that ...

On the morning of the US presidential election, my twelve-year-old son told me that Trump was going to win: ‘All ...

You might think that a novelist who works in more than one language would want language itself to become conceptual, ...

I t had been ​ twenty years since my last research trip to the British Library when, in November last year, I received an email with the subject line: ‘Important information about our recent cyber ...

The polycrisis that is unfolding demands not a return to the status quo but urgent, progressive answers both at home ...

Not all accounts of prehistory have been quite so triumphant. According to Geroulanos, Rousseau was the first to articulate modernity’s fascination with the distant past. The idea of the state of ...

The character of Gawain, one of King Arthur’s leading knights, recurs throughout medieval literature, but the way he’s presented underwent a curious development during the period, moving closer and ...

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