It is the castle on the hill, the grand dame of Tinseltown, the old lady of La-La Land. For almost 100 years, Chateau Marmont ...

Should Silicon Valley serve the military? What will tech wars mean? And will AI’s inhuman speed outpace regulators? Three books peer into a fast-evolving future ...

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 ...

Regarding San Diego landmarks, the photograph of a woman on rollerblades checking her mobile phone, accompanying the books review “Are we paying attention?” ( February 1 ), is not of Balboa Park, as ...

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

The Arts and Crafts designer incorporated patterns from Islamic art into carpets, textiles and wallpaper, as an exhibition ...

Europe needs a more flexible financial market to finance innovation and growth. Closing the gap to a buoyant and deregulating ...

Jacqueline Feldman’s non-fiction debut is a beautiful, important and timely study of Le Bloc, a squat in Paris ...

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 ...

Tash Aw’s first novel in a proposed quartet is a sparely written exploration of identity, migration and belonging ...

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

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