The novelist Ian McEwan once remarked that the sum of a writer’s career might only be the one or two feet of space their books occupy...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another seems to take place in a continuous present, even though there is a sixteen-year gap between the opening scenes...
I suspect many readers knew little, if anything, about Charlie Kirk before his murder on the 10 September. But if you have teenage kids they probably...
If you were diagnosed with cancer in Australia in the early 1990s, the chances you would survive for another five years were little better than 50–50...
Dominique Moïsi is an eminent French international relations expert, a scholar trained in Paris now teaching at Kings College in London and Harvard. In The Triumph...
When Russian drones entered Poland on the night of 9–10 September, I was across the border in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. As has happened so often...
It’s not often that one gets to read a history that speaks to one’s most private memories, one’s sense of self. This week I have read...
Hussein Agha and Robert Malley have offered a needed reality-check on the eve of next week’s UN session on the Gaza war, which will be defined...
Back in April 2015 Tony Abbott’s environment minister, Greg Hunt, boasted of the “stunning success” of the first “auction” under his government’s Emissions Reduction Fund. The...
Madison Griffiths’s probing new book begins with “a curiosity worth sweating over.” She’s on the other side of a relationship she had in her early twenties...