1. How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory ‘Trump’s Greenland concept was never absurd – it was strategic,’ Lauder wrote. Photograph: Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu/Getty Images “One... Read more »
A “once in a century” discovery of a cache of long-lost letters has revealed how the English poet WH Auden developed a deep and lasting friendship with a Viennese sex worker and... Read more »
This year’s Carnegie medals for children’s writing, awarded on Thursday, brought to light an unexpected trend. At a time of widespread public anxiety about the decline in boys’ reading habits and the... Read more »
One evening last week, I stood at the front door of an old friend’s place in my best coat, clutching a bottle of supermarket champagne. From inside I could hear voices in... Read more »