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Who were the English?
On Politics: What is political writing?
Fascism in a time of AI
An Alternative History of the Microphone
On Politics: What happened to the intellectual?
What’s the point of literary criticism?
On Politics: Germany's Far-Right Future?
The Romantic History of the Bayeux Tapestry
Roman Scandinavia
Travel with Close Readings: ‘Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino
Seamus Perry: Pluralism and the Modern Poet
Travel with Close Readings: ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James
Adam Shatz: Visions of America
Travel with Close Readings: Byron’s ‘Don Juan’
Amia Srinivasan: The Impossible Patient
Travel with Close Readings: ‘The Prelude’ (Books 9 and 10) by William Wordsworth
Adam Tooze: Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War
Travel with Close Readings: ‘The Travels of Sir John Mandeville’
The long history of Black voter suppression in the US
On Politics: Burnham’s First Week
Nolan v. Homer
Palantir and the NHS
On Politics: The US at 250
Poetry and the Turning World: Money
Among the Private Spies
Poetry and the Turning World: Food
On Politics: The Andy Burnham Show
Poetry and the Turning World: Weather
World Cup Cupidity
Poetry and the Turning World: Divorce
On Politics: What went wrong with HS2 (and almost everything else)
Poetry and the Turning World: Technology
Poetry and the Turning World: Work
On Politics: Myths of Populism
Jane Austen's ‘Emma’ and the art of misreading
Gaza after the Ceasefire
A Rough Guide to Money Laundering
When will AI replace us?
On Politics: A New Era for UK Politics
On Politics: The Fall of Orbán, the Rise of Magyar
James Lasdun's road trip to America's courts
On Politics: The Pope and the President
The War in Lebanon
Men Looking at Men
The philosophy of Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’
On Politics: Iran and the Oil Crisis
Insulin Wars
On Politics: Why you can’t change someone’s mind
Ordinary Abuse
On Politics: Keir Starmer’s Mess
What next in Iran?
Caravaggio’s Bodies
On Politics: The Rearmament Consensus
Early Modern News
On Politics: Mandelson and the Private Life of Power
Jessica Mitford’s Handbag
On Politics: A New Age of Protest in Iran
Buckley, MAGA’s Patron Saint
On Politics: Venezuela and the Trump Doctrine
Will the AI bubble burst?
What Don Quixote Knew
What Dickens taught Mariah Carey
Is ‘Wuthering Heights’ amoral?
Who owns Judy Garland?
On Politics: Inside Britain’s Asylum System
The Life and Death of a Photographer in Gaza
Next Year on Close Readings: Realism, Nature, Narrative Poems and a history of London
On Politics: The Bust-up at the BBC
Aftershock: The War on Terror – Episode 1: With Us or Against Us
Where does our waste go?
Introducing ‘Aftershock: The War on Terror’
On Politics: Latin America’s Right-Wing Shift
Pollution and Other Serial Killers
On Politics: Do bond markets and the Bank of England run Britain?
Extinction, Fast and Slow
On Politics: The Online Right (and Left)
Lessons from the Peace Process
Why should we listen to Amanda Knox?
On Politics: The Death of the Conservative Party?
How to Write Like Elmore Leonard
On Politics: Labour's Problems
Selling the Manosphere
The Debt to David Graeber
What’s so great about Formula One?
Close Readings: 'Our Mutual Friend' by Charles Dickens
The Psychology of Tennis
Why you should care about golf
Close Readings: ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley
Rat Universes
Pinochet and the Nazis
Israel's War of Opportunity
Close Readings: Mikhail Bulgakov and James Hogg
The Best-Paid Woman in NYC
Silicon Valley Warriors
The Best French Novel of the 20th Century
Is this fascism?
Close Readings: Nietzsche's 'Schopenhauer as Educator'
Old Pope, New Pope
In the Soviet Archives: a conversation with Sheila Fitzpatrick
How They Built the Pyramids