Things are normal,’ Sofya texted me on Sunday. ‘People really can’t wait to vote. It’s a good ...

Tom McCarthy, writing in the London Review of Books, described James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ as a ‘heavy book, a book full of ...

At the first interval in the Berlin Staatsoper’s new production of La Vestale, the man to my right turned to me ...

Pablo Scheffer joins Tom to explore the transition from Roman to British to Anglo-Saxon England between the sixth and eighth centuries. They discuss why none of the changes that took place was ...

In 2018, Penguin published Giorgio Bassani’s six-part cycle The Novel of Ferrara, translated by Jamie McKendrick, as a single volume. A regular customer at the bookshop where I work recently showed me ...

They see themselves as resurrecting the barricades of 1968, and reclaim ‘La Marseillaise’ when they march. If one of the ...

As a lazy writer and an even lazier translator, I have found myself without much work in recent years. Five years ago, I was quite confident that AI couldn’t replace human translators. Now, I am ...

The ‘truth’, to the extent that it is not known in advance by insiders or created by a trader to win their bet, is revealed at the close, and not by the markets but by the real world. Prediction ...

Several schoolchildren have been severely injured by police violence. A 16-year-old in Argenteuil may have lost the use of his left eye; a 14-year-old in Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône had his jaw fractured in ...

The first microphones were invented in the 1870s as components for telephones. By the 1930s, politicians as unalike as FDR and Hitler were using microphones as both audio devices and visual props for ...

In Iran, as elsewhere, GLP-1 agonists such as semaglutide and tirzepatide offer a chance to address obesity, improve organ functioning and treat various chronic health conditions. The drugs are also ...