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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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, ...

One can make quite a sport of dredging the depths of Tripadvisor, seeking the site’s most exquisite displays of entitlement and pettiness. Consider the luxury Caribbean hotel lambasted because a ...

Prospect receives commission when you buy a book using this page. Thank you for supporting us. Everyone now agrees that Friedrich Hayek was an unusually influential intellectual. His writings are ...

The Four Seasons, loosely based on the Alan Alda film of the same name, follows three couples in middle age, some of whom have known each other since college, across four holidays over the course of a ...