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Friday essay: I can’t smell – and it nearly killed me

In the winter of 1994, I stayed with my grandmother for a couple of weeks while my aunt, her full-time carer, was travelling. It wasn’t an imposition. I’d lived with my grandparents until I was eight years old, so to be back in that dim but beloved house was like…

The Conversation · Jun 25

No time for tomes like these

Letters: Daunted by Proust or Joyce? Letters from Ian Arnott, Mike Bromberg and Andrew Keeley on giving up on a long read

The Guardian - UK · May 26

Giles Havergal obituary

Artistic director of the Glasgow Citizens theatre with a reputation for extravagant productions and a daring repertoire

The Guardian - UK · Aug 25, 2025

‘Writing this book was like a drug high’: Rachel Kushner on her Booker-listed novel

The author on her party years in San Francisco, why she loves getting older and her most ambitious novel yet

The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2024

As I slide into my ninth decade there are many things I regret, and some days the list is endless

Being in the late evening of life we learn to reflect, to meditate on things lost and gained, to contemplate a society alien to the one we knew as children. But it doesn’t mean engagement in the world is less

The Guardian - AU · Mar 16, 2024

Sigrid Nunez: ‘When I was growing up I wanted to be Dr Seuss’

The American author on the greatness of Tolstoy, the joy of Jamaica Kincaid and her insatiable appetite for fairytales

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2024

Fury v Usyk capable of the gravitas of an era when boxing held sport’s greatest prize

This fascinating clash of character and style will provide the first undisputed heavyweight champion of the 21st century

The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2024

Richard Armitage: ‘I used to stand on the Lord of the Rings to reach the top shelf in my wardrobe’

The actor and author on his love of fantasy fiction, the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, and why he doesn’t want a second bite of Proust

The Guardian - UK · Oct 27, 2023

Have we reached peak China? Inside the 15 September Guardian Weekly

China’s economic crisis. Plus: ChatGPT and Proust

The Guardian - UK · Sep 13, 2023

Q&A: ‘Barbie’ filmmaker Greta Gerwig on art, commerce and embracing the mess

Barbie, the doll, may be 64 years old, but “Barbie,” the movie, is a pandemic baby

The Independent UK · Jul 20, 2023