Have novels left anything unsaid about the internet of the past fifteen years? It feels as though they’ve exhausted the terrain, but perhaps they’ve just made the same points over and over,... Read more »
Melinda French Gates is a woman who seemingly leaves little to chance. From girlhood she would write down goals for herself to reach, and she was just as driven at college and in... Read more »
For centuries, we’ve pursued happiness and meaning. But what does that leave out? What if I told you that we could all be rich? Not in dollars or pounds, yen or rupees,... Read more »
This story begins in a fever. It was the spring of 2021 and I’d contracted my first bout of Covid. Confined to bed, I turned to the pile of books that had... Read more »
Art, of course, brings pleasure. Now there is evidence that paintings can also help alleviate medical conditions, as well as boosting NHS staff. A new book produced by the charity Paintings in... Read more »
October 16, 2024 • Feature Story • 75th Anniversary This story is part of a special series featuring the experiences of people living with mental illnesses. The opinions of the interviewees are... Read more »
It was mostly in the small hours that I first read David Goodhartâs new book on caring. By coincidence, it arrived as I was trying to look after my dying father at... Read more »
As a youth she wasnât popular among her peers. âFat and freckly with red hair and mad about horses,â remembers Clarissa Churchill. âWe used to bully her.â Nancy Mitford was no kinder:... Read more »
âMadame Bovary, câest moi,â Flaubert said. What would Will Self say of his new novel? âElaine, câest moiâ? âMadame Bovary, câest ma mereâ? Described in the blurb as âperhaps the first work... Read more »