In the life and work of Correlli Barnett, we can find all the most dangerous currents of contemporary conservatism.

In the acknowledgements at the end of her new book, Open Socrates, the philosopher Agnes Callard writes: “Socrates compares writing down one’s ideas to planting seeds in barren soil from which nothing ...

On 10 April 1925, the day The Great Gatsby was published, F Scott Fitzgerald wrote to Max Perkins, his editor, asking that ...

In a close-up portrait of an intolerably contemptuous woman, the veteran director returns to his miserabilist comic mode.

The future of the Inflation Reduction Act hangs in the balance following the inauguration of Donald Trump.

“Be a selfish bastard” counts among the entrepreneur’s maxims.

The winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter Prize on how poets have responded to the horrors of civil war  – and why the peace process is far from over.

In January 2009, as Gordon Brown’s government argued over whether to build a third runway at Heathrow, the senior civil ...

Trump starts his second presidency with more Americans thinking favourably of him than they did in his first day of office in 2017.

The political calculations that allowed the Gaza ceasefire could yet be its undoing.

World surfing champions of the 1980s, both men and women.

At 60, the singer released Lookaftering, her first album in 35 years – and sparked a career renaissance.