By Alexander Stone Ten years ago, scientists found a planet called Kepler-452b. It’s often called Earth’s twin. It orbits a star like our sun. Its…
By Alexander Stone When Charlotte Emma Aitchison walked down the aisle at Hackney Town Hall on Saturday 19 July 2025, she was wearing something most…
By Maria Bregman I remember my first trip to Island. I was nineteen, on a layover, and my impression of the place was formed in…
By Alexander Stone On the weekend of 12 July 2025, a visitor at the Centre Pompidou-Metz in eastern France detached a banana from a white…
By Alexander Stone With a face that can look like a saint or a gargoyle, Willem Dafoe has built a career on playing characters no…
By Alexander Stone Ozzy Osbourne, the legendary frontman of Black Sabbath, has died. He was 76. His family confirmed the news this morning in a…
By Sara Bright Carys Davies’s historical novel, Clear, has won the main prize at the Wales Book of the Year awards. The news was shared by…
By Maria Bregman I remember standing in a Gibert Jeune in Paris some years ago, faced with a wall of Michel Houellebecq’s work. The covers…
By Maria Bregman I remember the summer of 2017 with a peculiar clarity. Not for the political upheavals or any personal milestones, but for the…
By Maria Bregman There is a particular kind of hushed, reverential silence unique to the modern mega-gallery. It is the sound of money contemplating itself.…