Keir Starmer became Prime Minister there was one appointment above all that was not in doubt – that of Rachel Reeves as ...

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The Japanese writer and nationalist, a darling of the US far right, was haunted by the aesthetics of self-destruction.

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Act, intensive care doctor Matt Morgan collects stories from patients who returned from death. Can they teach us how to live?

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The opera singer Maria Callas is Pablo Larraín’s latest glamorous, unhappy, unknowable muse – or is it Jolie herself?

Findlay’s problem is that there is only room for so many narratives in politics at once. During the 2000s, the UK Tories ...

This story of an office affair starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson is free of sanctimony: the misconduct is too hot to handle. By Ann Manov In The Dying Animal, Philip Roth’s sequel to The ...