The historian’s wide-ranging exploration of wistful reminiscence cautiously champions its benefits to society and challenges the view that it is dangerous and foolishAgnes Arnold-Forster was once a very nostalgic child. An avid reader of Enid Blyton novels, she tells us, she unsuccessfully begged her parents to “divert me from my 1990s London primary...

A musician’s chance encounter with a half-blind nag makes him take stock of his shattered life in the author and songwriter’s latest succinct but compelling novelThere is something quietly glorious about a novelist who identifies a furrow for their writing and then ploughs it diligently and skilfully from one novel to the next, with little concern for...

The historian’s wide-ranging exploration of wistful reminiscence cautiously champions its benefits to society and challenges the view that it is dangerous and foolishAgnes Arnold-Forster was once a very nostalgic child. An avid reader of Enid Blyton novels, she tells us, she unsuccessfully begged her parents to “divert me from my 1990s London primary...

Novelist, who teaches at New York University, says he finds it strange that progressive students currently ‘kind of support a fascist terrorist group’Salman Rushdie has said that the formation of a Palestinian state “right now” would mean a “Taliban-like state” is created.Commenting on the US campus protesters calling for a free Palestine, the author...

Butler is among several writers refusing to appear at the literary festival over sponsor Baillie Gifford’s alleged involvement in ‘technology and arms in Israel’Labour MP Dawn Butler and author Grace Blakeley are among those who have withdrawn from scheduled appearances at Hay festival over its sponsorship by investment management firm Baillie Gifford.Butler...

Influencers and politicians use snappy cliches to get you on side – but you can fight fire with fireSince the moment I learned about the concept of the “thought-terminating cliche” I’ve been seeing them everywhere I look: in televised political debates, in flouncily stencilled motivational posters, in the hashtag wisdom that clogs my social media feeds....