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The poet talks Noam Chomsky, growing his own veg, and travelling into the future.
ByThe poet talks Noam Chomsky, growing his own veg, and travelling into the future.
ByA soccer stud farm!
ByIf you’re the right age, these sounds whirl you back in time to those first records you owned.
ByOne looks at the news from points further south and despairs.
ByHad enough, have you? Here’s more. It’s the least you can do.
ByShame on the person – a man, surely? – who commissioned this Channel 4 programme.
ByDirector Michael Haneke shows how technology has elided the space between public and private lives.
ByThe key to reading between the lines of Anders Lustgarten’s play is easily to be found in post 9/11 news…
ByWith her books, Laura Ingalls Wilder forged a myth of the American pioneer.
ByThe new Amazon show from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino is full of period charm.
ByThis production at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall became more of a one-man show than its composer perhaps intended.
ByFinally arriving in London, the rap masterpiece turns the story of a forgotten founding father into a Shakespearean drama of ambition…
ByIn Horatio Clare’s Aubrey and the Terrible Ladybirds, a hero must save the polluted world from an enormous snail.
ByThey are the latest to attempt to nail down the slippery nature of paint on canvas.
ByIf you are looking for inspiration for the fight, this book will be your companion.
ByAnne Applebaum shows beyond doubt that the famine was man-made and ordered for clear political reasons.
ByPaul Gorman’s book seeks to “track the exciting highs and calamitous lows” of the magazine; frankly, I’ve seen more epic…
ByJohn A Farrell’s wonderful biography of the controverial American leader is brimming with wince-inducing vignettes.
ByHow a century of mistrust and political incompetence fuelled a secession crisis that could lead to the break-up of…
ByIn his first essay for the New Statesman, one of the world’s leading foreign policy experts explores the rise…
ByMany thought that skeletons might come tumbling out of his closet. The opposite has been the case.
ByYou can now play with a keyboard that has been “pre-trained” to riff on topics such as Blue Planet,…
By“Talk about the irony: here are we dragging ourselves out with Europe looking better than it has done for…
ByYour weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
ByWhat is the quickest way to start a punch-up between two British literary critics?
ByPrince Harry’s fiancée has had a successful career – and even stood up to Donald Trump.
ByThe Tate Britain director talks snowmen, Frank Bowling, and art made from alligator blood.
ByLabour aren’t advancing. This doesn't mean they aren’t winning.
BySpurious figures based on outdated measures are still published, causing regular bouts of national gloom.
ByA lot of people have stories of bird-related phenomena right after a loved one dies. For me, it's parakeets.
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