Political sentimentalism was never enough to overturn patriarchal beauty standards.

I saw the final (but is it?) episode of Gavin & Stacey a few days before most at a star strewn screening in a flashy London ...

In Stranger Than Fiction, the American editor Edwin Frank seeks to tell the story of the modern novel through an eccentric, ...

And thus Chanukah, which usually takes place somewhere between late November and mid-December, so all eight nights are done ...

Keir Starmer is paying the price for failing to distance himself from a Corbyn-era promise. By David Gauke It is the season of goodwill and all that and one should try to end the political year with ...

Is it possible to believe that love actually is all around? By George Monaghan December comes in, Richard Curtis comes on. And for that dizzy month, when you go out into the world, you are able to ...

Since the announcement of the ceasefire, thousands of Lebanon’s displaced civilians have returned to their homes in the south, undeterred by Israel’s airstrikes. After months of being internally ...

Christopher Lasch, Steve Bannon and Donald Trump all understand the unique current of our historical moment. By Lee Siegel Nearly two-thirds of the way into Norman Mailer’s classic work, Armies of the ...

A selection of essays, poetry, fiction, interviews and columns from the past 16 years. This list originally appeared in the ...