Children's booksChildren's booksLady Susan by Jane Austen - review‘Lady Susan is shortest and least known novel of Austen’s and was written in 1794 but not published till 1875 after her death’
When I saw a review by Peter Bradshaw for the new film Love and Friendship based on Lady Susan by Jane Austen, I was intrigued as he rarely gives a film 5 stars. I really like Jane Austen so I want to see the film but before I see it, I decided that I must read it.
The Cambridge Analytica FilesCambridge Analytica This article is more than 5 years oldLeaked: Cambridge Analytica's blueprint for Trump victoryThis article is more than 5 years oldExclusive: Former employee explains how presentation showed techniques used to target voters
The blueprint for how Cambridge Analytica claimed to have won the White House for Donald Trump by using Google, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube is revealed for the first time in an internal company document obtained by the Guardian.
This much I knowLife and styleInterviewTan France: ‘People assume I’m older than I am’Rich PelleyThe designer who made his name on Queer Eye, talks about his heritage, becoming a father and how to keep your eyebrows looking great
When I was young, my focus wasn’t on my queerness. It was more on being south Asian. I was raised in a small town in South Yorkshire. On the way to and from school, you just didn’t know if you were going to get attacked.
Thrillers of the monthThrillersReviewA teenager terrifies his uncle, Harlan Coben makes the implausible ring true – and the members of a running club have murder on their mind
I can’t say that I enjoyed Nathan Oates’s A Flaw in the Design (Serpent’s Tail), but I certainly read it at speed in a state of high stress and anxiety, as the tension built inexorably and I began to feel just as haunted (hunted?
Book of the dayLiterary criticismReviewAn inspiring analysis of Shakespeare and race restores his reputation as a playwright for all
There is a vivid moment in Farah Karim-Cooper’s new book where she reflects on the image of the nation’s pre-eminent playwright – how unfathomable he has seemed to artists and how his face has been conjured from a historical blur. She compares portraits and discerns a marked shift in the 18th century when he seems to become “more beautiful, symmetrical, and whiter in complexion”.
Book of the dayEssaysReviewAndrew O’Hagan scrutinises a trio of slippery figures in these vivid essays exploring the internet’s effect on our sense of selfThe internet has changed us, our means of communication, what we believe to be true, our identities and sense of self. That is a statement of such obviousness that we rarely stop to think about what it all actually means. But Andrew O’Hagan explores these themes with great depth and originality in three long essays – originally published in the London Review of Books – that make up his new collection, The Secret Life.
The ObserverDeborah LevyReviewDeborah Levy's rich response to George Orwell's famous 1946 essay "Why I Write" is unmissableA slender, beautifully bound blue hardback showed up on my desk. Its pages were creamy, its typeface clear in a formal, old-fashioned way. Each page number was picked out in scarlet. It was a book to put Kindle out of business, so covetable that, I almost thought, it scarcely mattered what it contained. It was then I noticed its curious title, Things I Don't Want to Know, and a quotation, picked out on the cover in pink type: "
MoviesReviewThe veteran war reporter Robert Fisk poses painful and profound questions about conflict and humanity in this engaging biographical documentary
1980: Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk dodges gunfire in bombed-to-rubble streets on the frontline of the Iran-Iraq war. Cut to 2018, and Fisk, nearly 40 years older, hair a little thinner, glasses a little less clunky, is walking through almost identical ruined streets, this time in Homs, Syria. After a lifetime reporting on conflict, Fisk reflects on the capacity of human beings to cause chaos on such a scale.
Higher education This article is more than 18 years oldAnger over plans to close women-only hall at University of LondonThis article is more than 18 years oldMuslim students at the University of London (UL) are outraged over plans to close the campus's only single-sex hall of residence.
College Hall, the university's women-only hall, is to close in July, forcing hundreds of students whose beliefs prevent them from living in mixed halls to seek alternative accommodation.