Australian composer Liza Lim, now resident in the UK, is string-obsessed, viewing string and rope as materials that have bound societies together throughout history: we weave tangled webs, we tie ...

Every day, multiple times a day, I need to stop briefly to unwind my thoughts and unburden my heart so that I can refocus and ...

The $50m bounty placed on the head of President Nicolás Maduro and the enormous build-up of US military forces in the Caribbean—the largest since the US invasion of Panama—make one thing clear: the ...

The “Wagatha Christie” case requires at least three things to be explained. The first is how, in legal and practical terms, Colleen Rooney won and Rebekah Vardy lost. And to understand this, we can ...

When the saga of the double-decapitation of the two most senior BBC executives comes to be written, historians might care to trace it back to Dougie Smith, a shadowy backroom fixer once described as ...

When I was a teenager, the Stephen King book that scared me the most was by his alter ego, Richard Bachman. The Long Walk follows a group of young men in a competitive walk across America. If they ...

On a weekend trip to Brighton, three friends and I are watching some standup comedy in a small, hot room. We’re almost the only people there, and the comedian picks us out and asks how we know each ...

Antarctica’s krill, a shrimp-like crustacean with a biomass so large it constitutes a globally important carbon sink and climate change buffer, provides over 95 per cent of the calories consumed by ...

“LinkedIn doesn’t know me anymore,” someone complained to me recently. “What do you mean?” I asked. She explained that the platform has replaced the old “recommended jobs” section, which used to show ...

Tech leaders and industry insiders are giddy with excitement about the advances under way in artificial intelligence, whether due to the scaling up of existing models and functionalities, new ...

There is an empty space where Britain’s largest mass political campaign once stood. The two most-signed online petitions in parliamentary history; the biggest marches on Whitehall since the Iraq War; ...

Levy’s latest book is certainly a contradictory mash-up of 34 essays, stories and short texts. It includes a taut telegram to an electricity pylon, her admiration of the ovoid quality of lemons and ...