Corbyn, my bae: Olly Alexander on why he supports the Labour leader
Alexander, the frontman of Years and Years, makes the case for Corbyn.
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Trump's triumph
How the politicisation of science allowed rogue theories to prosper in the USSR
A new book by Simon Ings reveals the terrors, follies and surprising successes of Soviet science.
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The London girls lost to Isis: what became of the “jihadi brides“
In 2015, three schoolgirls were photographed at the airport, en route to Syria. Will any of them ever come…
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In defence of the comic novel
Howard Jacobson's Goldsmiths Prize lecture: from Ulysses to Herzog, the comic novel unlocks the “meaninglessness of everything”.
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When some dodgy kedgeree nearly left me dead, it was the NHS that saved me
I recently worked out I've been near death nine times. This incident made it ten.
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The art of loathing: is Eileen the least likeable protagonist in fiction?
Accomplished, audacious and, by the end, as gripping as an airport noir, Eileen also works as a parable of…
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I have interviewed many actors – doing so has almost made me hate them
Ben Kingsley hated me and Mark Rylance just hummed – so I gave up celebrity profiles altogether.
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Stuck to the formula: Rachel Cusk’s Transit hits a new dead end
If Outline was all about shifting passivity, Transit is about characters who grab the bull by the horns. Why, then, does the novel…
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From sovereignty to cities: what we learned at Tory party conference
Getting lost in Birmingham, the bad taste of hard Brexit, and why Theresa May is her own brain.
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Stealth wealth: inside the secretive world of wealth management
Capital Without Borders by Brooke Harrington reveals a new, hidden focus for financial services: keeping family assets secure.
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Commons confidential: The shiny new politics of Theresa May
Tory tat, more Balls, and how Theresa May keeps the Tories on their toes.
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Foot washing? We ended up in A&E
When Dean told me there were evil spirits living in his trainers, I did what any parish priest would…
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The Returning Officer: Anne Freemantle
Anne-Marie Freemantle was the youngest woman candidate in 1935, fighting Westminster St George’s for Labour.
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Ed Balls to head Momentum? Well, stranger things have happened
The week in media, from Trump’s debt to the Greens to why Chipping Norton is a dump.
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This summer, I’ve been to Hull and back
Going to Hull twice in three months was a bit of a blessing, as it kept me away from…
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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart delight in the eternal puzzles of No Man’s Land
No Man’s Land reminds us of Harold Pinter's enduring genius – these two actors bring a new richness to it.
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Why is there so much greed in English football?
Tickets to the music hall and a guinea in your boots – now that’s a proper bung!
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US presidential election: Why hillbillies will back Trump at the ballot box
The US white working class fights back.
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Poem: Gloss
I started with alpha: Abdeluktos. / Above blame.
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The delicious history of edible Edens
Think of paradise and what springs to mind? Hopefully, we'd all arrive hungry.
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Why The Girl on the Train is tabloid cinema
If a movie is stripped down to its plot, the logic had better be watertight. This is transparently not the…
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Take a moment out of your busy lives to spare a thought for the over-rested
Often, being "rested" means being alone, away from other people. For the elderly or housebound, being over-rested can be…
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Inside the cosmic struggle of glam rock
Simon Reynolds’s reassessment of glam, Shock and Awe, takes us back to an era that feels eerily familiar.
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A bite of the apple: meet the man obsessed with our most English fruit
Pete Brown is an apple obsessive who is allergic to apples. Caroline Crampton went to an orchard with him…
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The unmasking of Elena Ferrante: why a writer’s biography is irrelevant
In the age of the Kardashians and compulsive self-revelation, it is ever more important that art be allowed to…
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Hillary Clinton: why I’m with her
Donald Trump's beauty queen shaming reminds me why I'm supporting the former secretary of state.
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