This week, Toby Lichtig goes to see the latest Roald Dahl adaptations, junior critic in tow and Dinah Birch celebrates the enduring power of Ebenezer Scrooge.

What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? Always question, never be afraid to change when the answer is “change”. To what extent, in your view, is writing a political act? To a very large extent.

As in Sally Rooney’s previous novels, the main characters in Intermezzo fall in love quickly, tidily and passionately. They meet, their outfits are described, they exchange clipped dialogue and are ...

Koch’s bacillus – the cause of tuberculosis – was identified in 1882, earning the microbiologist Robert Koch the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine. It was an early step on the road to the mastery ...

In the early 2000s I enrolled in a master’s course in computer science. Among my fellow students it was common to share jokes about bugs and bytes, or about the 10 types of people in the world – those ...

Craig Brown’s royal doorstopper is less about the life of Elizabeth II than about her effect on other people, particularly on the British, who were her subjects until 1981 and afterwards sometimes ...

Is mainstream shopping throughout the West just another marker of globalization? The easy answer to that is a resounding “yes”: the same products (from Coca Cola to San Pellegrino), in the same ...

Comedy loves telegrams. There is a strange poetry in their frantic demands. Their senders tend to be in love or custody. There is no quill, no candlelight; no time for grammar or dignity. In P. G.

It is misleading to include sculpture in a list of Baudelaire’s dislikes, as Seth Whidden does in his review of the Œuvres complètes (September 6). This commonly held prejudice is based on his Salon ...

The relationship between the world of books and the internet has always been more than a little tricky. It took another turn – a serious downturn, many would say – last week. On September 4 the US ...

Uranium is among the heaviest naturally occurring elements in the periodic table, and as the source material for the atomic bomb and nuclear power, its importance in human affairs is clear. Many ...