Dan Stewart

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Queen Elizabeth and Greta Thunberg Are Sending the Same Message on Climate Change. Will World Leaders Listen?

The Queen's complaint comes only two weeks after Greta Thunberg made strikingly similar remarks

By Dan Stewart October 15, 2021

How John le Carré's 'Silverview' Fits Into His Legacy

When John le Carré died last December, his obituarists struck a common theme: here was a master spy novelist who, despite selling millions of books and having his work adapted for television and film, never...

By Dan Stewart October 12, 2021

A Top Economist on Why We Need a New Social Contract

Minouche Shafik, the British-American director of the London School of Economics, on why we need a new social contract

By Dan Stewart August 11, 2021

England vs Germany Offers End to 25 Years of Hurt for One Man, and a Nation

In 1996, Germany defeated England at the European football championship, breaking hearts across the UK. A lot has changed since then.

By Dan Stewart June 28, 2021

Why the 1995 Princess Diana Interview Is Causing a Firestorm

An official inquiry found a 1995 BBC interview with Princess Diana had been obtained deceitfully and unethically

By Dan Stewart May 21, 2021

What Megan and Harry Mean for the Royal Future

The couple's allegation of racist treatment by the family comes with an aging monarch on the throne and the country in a moment of change

By Dan Stewart March 9, 2021

Kazuo Ishiguro on His New Novel 'Klara and the Sun'

The convention of this interview format is to spend TIME With the subject, but with the U.K. in lockdown, physical proximity is impossible. So over a recent video call with Kazuo Ishiguro, we ponder where...

By Dan Stewart March 2, 2021

The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020

Reading fiction in 2020 was an act of defiance—of turning our attention away from the catastrophes playing out around us to engage in a quiet, imaginative act. And the year’s best fiction offered many paths...

By Lucy Feldman November 19, 2020

Veep Creator Armando Iannucci Says These Times Call for Charles Dickens

In 1837, Charles Dickens moved into a narrow terraced house north of Central London. 48 Doughty Street was the novelist's home for only 2½ years, but they were productive ones--he wrote Oliver Twist and Nicholas...

By Dan Stewart August 20, 2020

Best-Selling Novelist David Mitchell Talks About Visiting the 1960s Rock Music Scene in New Novel Utopia Avenue

In David Mitchell's new novel, Utopia Avenue, a member of the 1960s psychedelic folk rock band that gives the book its name is asked by an interviewer which category its eclectic music falls into. "You're...

By Dan Stewart July 9, 2020
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