A Point of View

Zoe Strimpel asks the seemingly simple question 'what is a woman', but finds no simple answer as she

The everyday repression of life in Russia, as experienced by an anonymous dissident playwright. In t

'Perhaps, like me,' writes A L Kennedy, 'you can now only picture Cabinet meetings as gatherings whe

Adam Gopnik seeks enlightenment for our time in Tolstoy's War and Peace, finding parallels in Tolsto

"When war smashes its way into our living rooms as it did three weeks ago", writes Sarah Dunant, "it

For the past five years, Rebecca Stott and a Russian friend have spent time together... digging heav

Will Self tells the story of Vasily Arkhipov, the commander of a Soviet nuclear-armed submarine, who

Sara Wheeler reflects that the attack on Ukraine is not the war of the Russian people she has known.

John Connell reflects on planting trees on his family farm in Ireland as reparation for the years he

Sara Wheeler reflects on the harm done by seeing the world only from our own point of view."At the h

Will Self deplores the British attitude to children, seeing a mix of sentimentality and cruelty, and

As she leaves academia, Rebecca Stott says an audit culture is stifling universities. "Once univers

Sarah Dunant asks if we should judge the past by the standards of the present or future, as shifting

David Goodhart rejects what he calls the 'Eton conspiracy myth' of a cabal of his old school's alumn

Zoe Strimpel reflects on the impact of rapid home delivery on the way we live our lives, and asks wh

Adam Gopnik on why a visit to get his phone repaired resulted in an unlikely revelation. Watching th

Howard Jacobson ponders why he's always associated Christmas with the sea. Strange, he reckons, giv

Will Self reflects on his B&B renaissance. From early memories of B&Bs with his parents...to

A junk shop, a wooden chest, and some old newspapers from 1941 get Sarah Dunant pondering how we can

"Landscape made us', writes Sara Wheeler, 'and now, in the dying phase of our divorce from our envir