"The essay is an irresistible form: the one chance the dead get to speak to us." Gore Vidal, still very much alive, was in Brighton to talk to Andrew Marr >>>
Celebrities – occupying various positions on the scale of idolatry – are without doubt the all-powerful übermensch of our times. A new super-bourgeoisie, whose lifestyles, fashion changes and personal >>>
On February 13, Imad Moughniyeh, a senior commander of Hizbollah, was assassinated in Damascus. "The world is a better place without this man in it," State Department spokesperson Sean >>>
In love, she was much younger than he was. Pretty, a nymph disguised, but not a child. Thisbe never needed, felt any loss. Her face was fresh, eyes wide and nothing styled. It >>>
Frisbeetarianism is a religion of unclear origins. The basic principle of it is that when you die, your soul goes up on a roof and you cannot get it >>>
My eyes moved to the other side of the street. It was March. My hair was drenched and the pavements were as slippery as ice. The yellowing oak trees >>>
Let’s talk business. The Heroin business. A part of it any way; a killer that takes lives indiscriminately and without prejudice. I haven’t trawled through the internet and searched >>>
Not so long ago, I wrote an article for the Guardian's Weekend magazine about Andy Coulson, the ex-editor of The News Of The World who now spends his working >>>
from The places of our absence1. Beijing In the beginning, there was light, the white shades of buildings, the flag two colours of grey and the pavements alabaster. Then the >>>
Abu Ghraib and the Haditha massacre of 2005 will be remembered as the most haunting, symbolic events of the Iraq War, just as My Lai is for Vietnam. In >>>
Follow the timecode of Secondhand Daylight on the video-link below: (hours: minutes: seconds: frames) (00:00:43:22) The writer William Gibson refers to videotape as having the quality of second >>>
Emerging from Pimlico underground station, skirting Victorian-terraced Bessborough street, with its white-stuccoed columns planted steadfastly akimbo, making their stand against the creeping shadows from the glass and steel of >>>