Although TS Eliot was arguably the most influential literary critic of the 20th century, for decades, scholars worked without a collected edition of his critical prose, which was scattered through the ...

The most viral moment of this summer’s Olympics in Paris—even ahead of Raygun—may have been its most difficult to parse. In the boxing ring stood two fighters, one in red, one in blue. Not many ...

American voters are too calm about their coming election. Many in the centre of the ideological spectrum, and particularly those swing state voters who will decide the winner, see this as a time of ...

The American people have rejected their own democracy, embracing a man who previously sought to annul their votes. They have formalised post-truth, determining that mendacity is no bar to public ...

There was a wide gender gap in this US election, just as there was in 2016 and 2020. Kamala Harris enjoyed a 10-percentage point lead over Donald Trump among women voters, according to the exit polls.

Unless the US polls have messed up for the third consecutive presidential election—and later in this blog we shall discuss why they might have done—three lessons can be learned from the battle between ...

For some Americans, the motive behind their vote was best expressed in a poster, visible in the western Pennsylvania countryside last week, which read “Trump, God and Guns”. But for many others, the ...

“Flop”: the word sounds dismal, a wet fish. Films flop—sometimes, as in the case of the recent Joker: Folie à Deux, dramatically. Should we care? Isn’t it vulgar to focus on money rather than art?

After weeks of guesswork, Alan and Lionel are joined by the man behind Tortoise Media, James Harding, and journalist Carole Cadwalladr, to get the inside scoop on Tortoise’s bid for the Observer After ...

Pulitzer-winning journalist Steve Coll analyses the election, and Robert Kagan discusses his resignation from the Washington Post following a controversial decision Just days ahead of the US election, ...

In order to manage my expectations early, Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad—better known collectively as the White Pube—make it crystal clear to me: they do not like Tracey Emin. We’ve barely ...

Temporary accommodation is the sharp end of England’s housing crisis. Official data shows that there are now more than 117,000 households in this unenviable situation— an increase of 23 per cent in ...