Last autumn, I wrote in Prospect about two ultra-contemporary adaptations of Greek tragedy then dominating the London stage. Rob Icke’s version of Oedipus, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, ...

No one reading AG Macdonell’s satirical novel The Autobiography of a Cad on its 1938 publication would have taken the Scottish writer’s antihero at face value. Edward Fox-Ingleby’s fictional political ...

“It’s a beautiful time to be alive. A joy to be alive,” Jeff Koons says. Recently turned 70, Koons has the symmetrical features, smooth skin and discreetly expensive overcoat that suggests Mayfair ...

Could it happen here? Could a Donald Trump tribute act sweep into power in the UK, trash the existing order and overwhelm the system with a series of outlandish and extreme measures before anyone had ...

December is not the best month in the Polish city of Katowice. Unless you are a fan of coal-driven heavy industry, the town’s appeal is not obvious. In December 2018, the smell of coal that hung in ...

Kim Leadbeater is taking a scalpel to her own bill to remove one of its most widely criticised proposals: that a High Court judge should be in charge of reviewing each and every application for an ...

Every murder mystery must have an identifiable killer, every superhero movie an evil nemesis, every romantic comedy a spoiled yuppie antagonist. And apparently every lost presidential election needs a ...

A piece of smart detective work by an Australian coroner following a particularly sad suicide has led to a review of the laws in Victoria state governing assisted dying—and might lead to the sort of ...

Alan and Lionel are joined by American editor and media executive Norman Pearlstine. They reflect on Trump’s second term so far, and how news outlets have reported on some of his astonishing executive ...

Donald Trump’s first ten days of his second term as president of the United States included no less than two repeated calls for Egypt and Jordan to take in Palestinians from Gaza, and an additional ...