12 Aug 2021 - 1:00am

The Magic Mountain will consume you Has Twitter ruined Thomas Mann's classic?

Ben Judah

11.08

Covid isn’t the end An elegy to vanished kingdoms shows this is not how civilisations collapse

Niall Gooch

09.08

Lessons in lockdown from a psychiatric ward A re-issued memoir from the sixties feels eerily familiar

Frances Wilson

06.08

Macron’s vaccine passport gamble Mandatory passes could provoke a new Gilets Jaunes movement

John Lichfield

06.08

Will Trump bring down DeSantis? The Florida governor's fate has always rested in Donald's hands

Oliver Wiseman

04.08

Bankers are running the country Democracy is being sacrificed for the sake of more cash

Peter Franklin

02.08

Did the New York Times stifle lab leak debate? Were commercial relationships with China a factor?

Ashley Rindsberg

28.07

Britain’s absurd quarantine failures Closing the borders to plague is an age-old response — which our government disregarded

Stuart Ritchie

20.07

Why did we give up on AstraZeneca? Our faltering vaccine programme means it's time to reassess its risk

Tom Chivers

19.07

Are we free on Freedom Day? Liberalism was always going to be useless in a pandemic

Ed West

15.07

What will the next plague bring? History has shown us what the end of the world will look like

Suzannah Lipscomb

06.07

How Covid fuelled the US opioid crisis In West Virginia, lockdown has left an overdose epidemic in its wake

Oliver Wiseman