
How to make a hit: what Brahms, Donald Trump and Raymond Loewy knew
In Hit Makers, Derek Thompson reveals the secrets of success in the arts, politics and beyond
ByIn Hit Makers, Derek Thompson reveals the secrets of success in the arts, politics and beyond
BySilicon Valley has us hooked on digital dope. A “dumb phone” is one way to break that addiction.
ByOur weekly Telling Tales column.
ByThe strange creatures of Kafka’s posthumous collection The Burrow.
ByJohn Burnside as a poet and novelist.
ByThe best course of action in these times? Read old books for all the answers.
ByIn our quickfire round, the Prime Minister explains the appeal of Vivienne Westwood – and who she'd have her last…
ByThe phrase is devious political propaganda.
ByMary Pickford, a Conservative, was elected as the MP for Hammersmith North in London in 1931, having fought Farnworth,…
ByEach year 17,000 domestic workers accompany wealthy families to the UK – helped by a special visa regime that…
ByHow a former tech blogger broke America – and became a hero to angry young white men.
ByLen Deighton’s SS-GB and the lure of alternate histories.
ByThe Oscar-winning actor on keeping secrets, Donald Trump, and the character traits that turn him on.
ByMalcolm Guite's religious portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
ByRyan Gilbey wishes Denzel Washington’s big-screen remake of Fences had a bit more room to breathe.
By... and the folly of the anti-Trump elite.
ByMay’s new conservatism presents a challenge to Labour, whose voters are divided between liberal cities and traditionally working-class areas…
BySimon Winchester on Julian Glover’s Man of Iron – a biography of the great engineer Thomas Telford.
ByThe Prime Minister on Brexit, Trump, the return of the state and enticing Labour supporters to vote Tory.
ByFurtive whisperings among Tory MPs and late nights for the PM.
ByDesire makes us feel fully alive, when even love can’t reach those unsafe spaces that make life worth living.
ByFeeling peaky but virtuous, I decide that I’m not going to drink this evening.
ByIt is easy to guffaw at the idea of a billionaire Bolshevik in the White House, but it seems…
ByThose who want Arsène Wenger sacked will regret being so horrid to him.
ByThe increasing desperation here will turn into a boon for smugglers.
BySarah Ditum enjoys Michelle Tea’s latest anarchic autofiction, Black Wave.
ByLet’s stop going overboard with the fashion for finicky food fetishes.
ByWe should ask what kind of financial sector we really want.
ByFirst the clatter-iron blackbird, its fanatical shuddering in the magnolia: dusk; and the garden is re-assembling, calling its sparrows…
By“But it’s beautiful music, Antonia! Tsk! Tsk!”
ByGood Morning Britain has become one of the most mortally embarrassing shows on television. Plus: The Moorside .
BySocial media has become a battleground of polarised politics, but we can't be afraid to expose the chinks in our own…
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