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 ...

Christopher Lasch, Steve Bannon and Donald Trump all understand the unique current of our historical moment.

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

The all-action American novelist is praised for his virile heroics – but it was his instinct for “the feminine” that gave his ...

For centuries it was “the Lock and Key of England”, the garrison town that guarded the realm against Julius Caesar, William ...

December comes in, Richard Curtis comes on. And for that dizzy month, when you go out into the world, you are able to believe that, twinkling in the lights over streets, “love actually is all around”.

There are countless reasons to believe that he is not the right person for the job – not least when candidates with an established relationship with the new American right were eschewed for a ...

In Stranger Than Fiction, the American editor Edwin Frank seeks to tell the story of the modern novel through an eccentric, provoking list of 32 books. By John Mullan The photo of the author on the ...

The agreed pause in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has been repeatedly violated. By Sebastian Shehadi The relief that swept over Lebanon after a 60-day ceasefire deal was agreed in late ...

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 ...