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‘W“I left Warrington at 5:15 in the morning to get here,” Emma tells me, standing in the queue running down Walton Street. it is already crying. Oxford does not shortchange the traveling reader. Every year, visitors flock to the colleges…

Mein a small stone church, on the edge of a medieval desert, two women are getting married. Attendees wear rainbow hats, glittery accessories and top hats. A scantily clad man with angel wings led the ceremony. On the heads of…

Tomi Adeyemi, author of the popular YA fantasy book Children of Blood and Bone, has distanced herself from the upcoming movie of her book. “There’s a reason I can’t post anything about my career change,” the Nigerian-American writer said in…

MeAsking Rachel Aviv is a great way to get a reader’s opinion. The author answers my questions about her new book by asking if I have read her friend Parul Sehgal on trauma plot (where), Janet Malcolm‘s oeuvre (are you…

DAniel Mason’s latest novel sees him return to the lush New England landscape that captivated the readers of 2023. North Woods. This time, however, he’s crossing the border from Massachusetts to Vermont — and making a profound difference. Where North…

MeIt has never been easier to land and have a good career. But it feels like it’s getting bigger. In June, the number of jobs in the UK fell to a five-year low; headlines warn of AI job shocks. What…

DGrieving children and parents are the reality of her work, says Canadian critical care physician Tanya Haj-Hassan. “But Gaza “Haj-Hassan is one of several doctors interviewed in Daniele Rugo’s documentary about their medical work in Gaza since October 2023. Doctors…

Here is a hilarious Nigerian romcom, in which Soluchi, or “Sol” (played by Uzoamaka Power) is a modern woman living in Lagos where she works at an internet call center. He is good at his job, a natural sympathizer who…

Bog Witch It may have had a tree-hugging moment but Bryony Kimmings’ solo show finds fresh and thought-provoking perspectives on our world’s most familiar problems. In the summer, she recalls the tumultuous year after moving into a permaculture-style house with…

“MAdonna never shows up, she’s always moving forward,” Warner PR Liz Rosenberg told me in 2005, after several frustrating months after her accident. Madonna it also came out “like a bullet from a gun” with the glorious disco-driven Confessions on…