My news feed has been full of headlines about the end of the world. “Is war coming to Korea?” “Putin: Nukes in Ukraine?” Even: “Netanyahu may use THESE THREE WEAPONS to attack Iran’s nuclear ...

Each year, there is a prolonged and increasingly irritating debate as to whether certain films count as “Christmas movies” or not. There are the uncontroversial choices—Elf, Miracle On 34th Street, It ...

On 18 th June 1994, two members of the Ulster Volunteer Force dressed in boiler suits and balaclavas walked into a bar in Loughinisland, County Down and opened fire. Six people were killed. Nobody has ...

From Shakespeare’s sonnets and Donne’s songs (“Tell me where all past times are”) to Wordsworth and Eliot (“All time is unredeemable”), poets have gone in search of lost time. It was this theme—one of ...

The big story, following publication of the Makin Report and the resignation of Justin Welby, is clear: a corrupt Church of England knowingly sheltered a terrible abuser, in the shape of John Smyth, ...

Sometime in 1962, a little girl called Anne, who was seven or eight years old, was teased by a mean boy at her school in Pacific Palisades, southern California. “Are you something out of The Twilight ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury resigned over failures in the Church of England’s safeguarding, following the appalling revelations about the abuse committed by John Smyth, who was part of the Iwerne ...

The fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria is at the heart of a major shift in the geopolitics of the Middle East. Assad’s departure brings with it changes in the positions and behaviours of some ...

Hans Niemann isn’t one to let go of a grudge. Two years after a major cheating scandal, the 21-year-old American grandmaster has found himself sort of vindicated. Even so, straight after qualifying ...

How did the US come to this? James Shapiro’s The Playbook doesn’t contain all the answers—but, in its telling of the struggle over a New Deal theatre programme in the 1930s, it does have some. Here, ...

There is a feeling of utter randomness to The Position of Spoons: and Other Intimacies, Deborah Levy’s new collection of nonfiction writing. In a world of pithy blurbs—and the publishing industry’s ...

Let’s start at the very beginning: prehistory. Although are we actually starting there? Stefanos Geroulanos’s The Invention of Prehistory is less about life thousands of years ago, and more about how, ...