As the country goes to the polls, writers explore, in fiction and non-fiction, its identity and values — and where these suggest it is heading ...

Detroit carmaker is still committed to chief executive Mary Barra’s vision of “an all-electric future”, Kurt Kelty says ...

Academic Tim Minshall’s enthusiastic study of globalised production is also a warning on the loss of local expertise ...

For decades after the second world war, the US was that leader. From the Latin American debt crises of the 1980s to the Asian ...

Dutch environmental journalist, Marco Visscher, once thought nuclear power should be abolished before it could ruin the 21st century. Today he thinks it is a miracle technology, as he explains in The ...

In up-close encounters with Russians on the western border with the EU, Howard Amos seeks out human stories behind the headlines ...

This “cognitive perspective” lies at the heart of The Forgotten Sense. How we experience a smell or taste depends both on our ...

Heather Parry’s unflinching novel depicts inherited trauma and women complicit in handing down the worst of the patriarchy ...

US gas exports are the most likely beneficiaries of a pledge by Donald Trump and Narendra Modi to make India a leading buyer of American energy, analysts said, as the world’s fastest-growing big ...

Brighthouse Financial is seeking to sell itself ... The company, which has a market value of $3bn, trades at just 0.8 times book value per share as it has struggled to increase profits needed ...

Europe, said Armin Papperger, Rheinmetall chief executive, needed large “champions with a turnover of around €40bn”. This, he ...

It helps that Evans is extremely good at it. She has written four successful novels and now, in I Want to Talk to You, are ...