When did opera become elitist?
Alexandra Wilson’s history of the art form in Britain shows how it used to appeal to everyone, from miners to…
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The price of revolution
Jason Burke chronicles how radical activists in the 1970s found violent new ways to pursue their causes
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An Afghan hotel that has seen it all
Lyse Doucet’s The Finest Hotel in Kabul is a vivid and personal display of Afghanistan’s turbulent political history
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Thomas Pynchon’s lasting triumph
His latest novel borrows too freely from his previous work. But what work it has been
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Jilly Cooper was our national flirt
Novels like Riders made room for pleasure in a literary culture often wary of it
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Twilight is immortal
Twenty years after the book, Stephenie Meyer still knows what we ache for
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The Goldsmiths Prize 2025 celebrates new perspectives
Four first-time novelists are among the six writers shortlisted for the £10,000 award for fiction that “breaks the mould”.
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Jane Goodall’s lucid optimism
The renowned naturalist believes that we can only save the planet with hope.
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