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Given what it sets out to do, it’s hard to fault The Thursday Murder Club. The sentences flow smoothly, the jokes ...

The first hour of Anora, Sean Baker says, belongs to the genre of romantic comedy. This makes interesting sense if ...

Fred Sparks had lots of readers. Wire services bragged when they bagged him and dispatched his dispatches to dozens ...

Keir Starmer described Badenoch’s election as a ‘proud moment for our country’. He presumably meant that ...

On the morning of the US presidential election, my twelve-year-old son told me that Trump was going to win: ‘All ...

What is it about the body that resists plain description? When we discuss our bodies, we evoke other things: the body as machine, possibly malfunctioning; the body as computer, infinitely programmable ...

There are only two gun stores in Mexico. Throughout the enormous country, which takes three full days to cross by car from top to bottom if you don’t stop, the only places you can legally buy a gun ...

You might think that a novelist who works in more than one language would want language itself to become conceptual, ...

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The Earth aged millions of years over the course of the 18th century. In 1650 the Irish archbishop James Ussher had dated creation to around 6 p.m. on 22 October 4004 BCE. His estimate was based on a ...