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Long live ENO!
The three most moving, transporting death scenes in 19th-century opera all involve the respective heroines mounting a funeral pyre —…
What stops women from having it all
Don’t even ask, says Anne-Marie Slaughter, law professor and former adviser to Hillary Clinton. Motherhood still means sacrifice
Distorting the truth — US presidential campaign-style
It is hardly uncommon for politicians to lie, especially when their careers are threatened by a sexual transgression — John…
Alexander McCall Smith’s notebook: America vs my diet
The trouble with going on an American book tour is that I know it’s going to play havoc with my…
A world crisis with no world leader
No one wants to pay the price of speaking for the free world
You, too, can be a shale profiteer
Here’s how to get a slice of the fracking action
America's war on sleep
The relentless rise of ‘you snooze, you lose’
Across the Pond, by Terry Eagleton - a review
The esteemed literary critic, serial academic and one-time Marxist firebrand Terry Eagleton is, at 70, still producing books at an…
The Unwinding, by George Packer - review
The Unwinding is a rather classy addition to the thriving genre of American apocalypse porn. The basic thesis can be…
