This is a haunted house story with a difference. The set-up might sound familiar—a young writer, currently blocked, recently dumped and back in his childhood home having just buried his father—but ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2013, Lauren Mayberry wrote a newspaper column titled “I will not accept online misogyny”. Her band, Chvrches, a synth-pop trio from Glasgow, was just taking off. As the frontwoman, Mayberry was on ...

Could machine-generated articles replace those created by human beings? Alan and Lionel answer your questions about the media and AI Could machine-generated articles replace those created by human ...

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 ...

“I don’t think Santa is real. I think it is you who give us our presents”—our eight-year-old has repeated this a few times over the past couple of years. Usually, I laugh and respond in the vaguest, ...

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 ...

The pen may not be mightier than the sword, but it still has the power to wound. How else to explain the extraordinary remarks of the former Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, this week in which he ...

My one-year-old cat went missing eights weeks ago. On a windy and stormy night, he walked off and never came back. I am especially worried for him, as this is the second time he has lost his home—when ...

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 ...

José Arcadio Buendía, the patriarch in One Hundred Years of Solitude, is an inventor whose projects straddle the visionary and the impossible. Although some of the schemes work, most—such as his ...