Is it fair to criticise a nonfiction book for what it doesn’t include? Most would argue that it isn’t unless the omissions materially alter the subject being tackled. And this is where Lissa Evans’s ...

There are still journalists who believe in the honourable aims of their trade. They want to bear witness to history, hold the powerful to account, campaign for justice and so on. We’ve seen it this ...

Paul McMullan considered calling his book Accidental Murder, since he thinks it is possible that his activities as a tabloid journalist contributed to the deaths of up to five people. In the end he ...

When the writer David Foster Wallace died in 2008, he left behind a manuscript for an unfinished novel, The Pale King, as well as an oeuvre that has come to define him as the voice of a generation: ...

“The man on his holidays becomes the man he might have been, the man he could have been, had things worked out a little differently,” declares Mr Stevens, a London office clerk on his annual summer ...

For the major US AI companies today, there are two big risks. The first is getting on Donald Trump’s bad side. The second, strangely, is having people believe your own hype. Take Anthropic, creator of ...

If there is one meeting of minds I’d love to drag out of history and into the AI era, it would be that shared by Alan Turing and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The real-life hookups between the young father of ...

On the morning of 28th February, Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a nine-year-old pupil at the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, a city in southern Iran, left for school. Standing at the top of the stairs ...

It is one of the great might-have-beens in modern British history. In June 2003, Gordon Brown ruled out joining the euro, for the time being. The road to Brexit 13 years later was a long and winding ...

Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders: from the 1960s onwards, Germany produced countless top-tier filmmakers. The most towering figure, though, was undoubtedly Alexander Kluge, who died this March at the age ...

In August 2023, a special adviser left the Ministry of Defence to become director of strategic engagement at German defence firm Helsing that November. The following February, less than a year after ...

The new seat of Waveney Valley cuts through the border country of Norfolk and Suffolk and is attracting national attention. This is due in no small part to Adrian Ramsay, the Green Party co-leader, ...