Somali nomads are living the good life
Northeastern Kenya We were in beautiful bush country up towards Somalia, in pastures that shone like spun gold in the…
I’ve been enslaved by my Apple watch
Aside from streaming on an iPad, one of the few entertainments on offer when riding a stationary bike is tracking…
The Belgian resistance finally gets its due
Helen Fry’s account of the men and women who risked all to provide intelligence about their German occupiers in both world wars makes for a gripping tale of courage, ingenuity and sacrifice
No band should play Ally Pally
The last time Gillian Welch and David Rawlings played in London it was a different world: the world of David…
Even as literate adults, we need to learn how to read
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst shows us the rewards of reading slowly and attentively – and making connections between seemingly disparate things
How the terrorists of the 1970s held the world to ransom
It is remarkable how few people it took – only around 100 – to cause carnage over four different continents, says Jason Burke
Unhappy band of brothers: the Beach Boys’ story
The quintessential Californian band who sang of sun, sand and surfing had, like the Golden State itself, a dark side as well as light
What drove the German housewife to vote for Hitler?
Focusing on the top echelons of Weimar politics, Volker Ullrich barely considers what options ordinary people had, crushed by hyperinflation in the 1920s Republic
Will the ‘bunny boiler’ tag continue to haunt single women?
From the femme fatale of noir to Fatal Attraction’s Alex, the unattached female has often been feared and scorned
Zadie Smith muses on the artist-muse relationship
In an outstanding essay on Lucian Freud and Celia Paul, inspirations for each other, Smith even admits to having offered to model for Freud herself as a teenager
