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It seems ironic that the more deeply we want to see into the world, the bigger we have to make our instruments

The spy turned novelist arrived in search of new plots and left with an understanding that eludes some natives

The capital’s culinary identity has been forged by outsiders – from rural charcoal sellers to the migrants who staff its signature restaurants

Rosamund Pike delivers a quite astonishing performance as a Crown Court Judge wrestling with the legal system's shoddy handling of sexual assault cases

A distinctly unappetising production has somehow made its way to the West End. Do not be fooled

An earnest adaptation of a novel about suicide, sex and capital punishment is an impressive looking production, but a barrel of laughs it is not

Bashing the capital has become a popular and lucrative hobby for a number of right wing figures

Though the word ‘swain’ may itself be obsolete in English today, there are still traces of it hanging around in our modern English language

She witnessed extreme horror. The photographs she took and the words she wrote both made and broke her

A new telescope, 2,650 metres up on a mountainside in Chile, is one of the most ambitious astronomical projects of our times

The creator and star of a new postwar drama talks literature, the second world war and unconventional Hollywood marriages

A brief, species-wide experiment in trying to connect everyone together is coming to an end

France used to revere its intellectuals – but the men moaning about ‘le wokisme’ are intellectual lightweights

Calleja is part of a new, very different generation of translators, as her experimental memoir makes clear

Eight years after his death, a reissue of Kitchen Confidential still burns with wit and rage

They created fleshy bulbous mounds, glistening protuberances, dark orifices – beauty was never their aim

A mission to read the complete works in chronological order reveals unexpected joys and an antidote to theatrical woes

A new book captures the enduring confusion of that moment when love goes away

Lena Dunham’s first major television project since Girls is so much more than the romcom it's billed as

The party’s ex-chair used the word ‘dumb’ to describe a colleague’s comments. But the word is usually employed in Britain to mean ‘unable to speak’

The German-American went from a sniper to an academic with a reputation for sexual frankness

I’ve not given up on culture; far from it. What I do instead is split my life between online and offline

The worry is that this becomes a technology that we use because we can rather than because we know it can make a difference

Five years after the fire, the resurrection of the breathtaking cathedral tells a whole new story

There is gold in a mountain of dross – if you know where to look

A new TV series asks what happens if human minds can be fully uploaded into machines

Gianni Infantino, the boss of FIFA, spends his time with influencers, Gulf royalty and Donald Trump. He says it’s all about the football – but really it’s all about him

The artist reopens a Norfolk stately home with two pulsating works celebrating the sea

After two years of droughts, farmers are being forced to find new, innovative ways to grow ingredients for the classic Italian dish

Big-money galleries are moving in, but an underpaid, precariously employed workforce isn’t convinced

Directed by Jeremy Herrin, David Hare's compelling new play is not only admirably cerebral but profoundly moving