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Milan Kundera’s sexual revolutions

The misunderstood author cared more about skirt-chasing than power politics.

By Christopher Caldwell

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The Picasso problem

The Picasso problem

Michael Prodger

Lana Del Rey: a great American poet

Hannah Williams

We must resist the hype machine

Sarah Manavis

The Weekend Report

Kevin Spacey’s last stand

Tanya Gold

The dismal world of David Walliams

The dismal world of David Walliams

Tom Gatti

Simone de Beauvoir and the art of loss

Ali Smith

Interviews

Julia Donaldson Q&A: “I have wonderful memories of busking in Siena”

Julia Donaldson Q&A: “I have wonderful memories of busking in Siena”

New Statesman

Lindi Ngwenya: “Women football agents are as cut-throat as the men”

Lindi Ngwenya: “Women football agents are as cut-throat as the men”

Hunter Davies

Joyce Carol Oates, online and off

The Culture Interview

Joyce Carol Oates, online and off

Imogen West-Knights

Antonia Fraser: “I don’t like being unpopular”

The Weekend Interview

Antonia Fraser: “I don’t like being unpopular”

Kate Mossman

Reviews

The Power of Parker captures the particular quirks of Nineties northern England

Rachel Cooke

Oppenheimer’s tormented soul

Pippa Bailey

Virginia Woolf’s living book

Virginia Woolf’s living book

Anna Leszkiewicz

Mysteries of the owl and octopus

Kathleen Jamie

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie: the art of selling out

Ann Manov

Lorrie Moore’s American afterlife

Lorrie Moore’s American afterlife

Ellen Peirson-Hagger

The long read

Inside the “psychopathic” battle for Taylor Swift tour tickets

The Weekend Report

Inside the “psychopathic” battle for Taylor Swift tour tickets

Buying new SIM cards, taking time off work, and spending hours on hold: UK Swifties explain the all-consuming experience of…

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger