Thomas Mann
The Magician by Colm Tóibín review – a difficult Mann to know
This dramatisation of Thomas Mann’s private and public life never quite convinces as biography or fiction
Anthony Cummins
26, Sep, 2021 @8:00 AM
The Magician by Colm Tóibín review – inside the mind of Thomas Mann
This compelling fictionalised biography explores the life and times of the exiled German Nobel winner, exquisitely balancing the intimate and momentous
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
17, Sep, 2021 @6:30 AM
The cupboard looks increasingly bare for Marcus Rashford’s detractors | Tim Adams
Those who fought against the campaign for free school meals should be shamed by families’ miserly food parcels
Tim Adams
17, Jan, 2021 @7:15 AM
'It had been on my shelf for years': readers share their lockdown reads
Publishers report that coronavirus has boosted sales of long, classic novels. You reveal the great baggy monsters you’ve found the time to tackle
Guardian readers and Rachel Obordo
06, Nov, 2020 @10:00 AM
The end of coronavirus: what plague literature tells us about our future
From Thucydides to Camus, there are plenty of hopeful reminders that there’s nothing unprecedented about the coronavirus lockdown - and that pandemics do end
Marcel Theroux
01, May, 2020 @10:00 AM
Tackle that to-be-read pile: the books to try if you're self-isolating
From Nora Ephron to Thomas Mann, here are 12 books to entertain, challenge and inspire if you’re confined at home due to Covid-19
Alex Clark
18, Mar, 2020 @2:30 PM
Gigi Crompton obituary
Other lives: Botanist and author of the Cambridgeshire Flora Records Since 1538
Kirsty Findlay
17, Feb, 2020 @4:03 PM
Death in Venice review – Britten's opera dazzles and glows
Mark Padmore’s impressive central performance powers David McVicar’s luxurious if earthbound revival of Britten’s final opera
Erica Jeal
22, Nov, 2019 @1:00 PM
From Roth to Le Guin: top 10 novels about the first world war
Authors such as Virginia Woolf and Pat Barker show how the conflict’s devastating impact carried on long after the 1918 armistice
Daniel Mason
14, Nov, 2018 @11:58 AM
Reading group: which novel set on holiday should we read this month?
Whether we’re being taken on vacation by Ernest Hemingway or Esther Freud, this month’s reading is likely to be melancholy, hedonistic or both
Sam Jordison
28, Aug, 2018 @11:44 AM
Learning German is just the job for savvy millennials
Growing numbers of under-30s are attracted to the language to better their career options
James Tapper
18, Aug, 2018 @4:30 PM
On my radar: Richard Sennett’s cultural highlights
The American sociologist on gardening, the Open Britain campaign and Janáček’s quartets
Kathryn Bromwich
25, Feb, 2018 @10:00 AM
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