As the US president’s rollercoaster tariff policy creates global financial chaos, Tim Harford asks: is he in a fight he can’t ...

As Erik Satie’s epic ‘Vexations’ comes to London, we recall other marathon feats, involving Marina Abramović, John Cage and F ...

This is daytime clubbing. It’s a revelation, and I’m a convert. Daytime clubbing and what is dubbed “light” clubbing — events ...

The soprano brings powerful singing to this recording of concert performances with the Orchestra and Chorus of Norwegian National Opera ...

The 1950s floor lamp design created by Richard Kelly and Philip Johnson for the architect’s Glass House turned the way a room is lit on its head — and it’s making a comeback ...

Amid the seemingly existential challenge by AI to the artistic process, two books explore how human creativity responds to changing environments ...

It’s not an area in which I have any expertise but I’ve found myself thinking about trade and resources, and what it could look like to imagine that there are different economic landscapes, aside from ...

After months of US threats to hobble Mexico with tariffs over its “intolerable alliance” with drug cartels, the Trump administration has become positive about its southern neighbour.

Following hard on the heels of Youssou N’Dour comes Salif Keita, his Malian equivalent in stature. In 2019 the “Golden Voice of Africa” announced he was retiring from music to play draughts in the ...

Something happened inside the hypnosis room, Sunny recalled. “I came out and it left me [with] a feeling of ‘I don’t even know what it’s like to gamble’. “The only way I can describe it is if somebody ...

The remedies lie in education policy (more facts, less emoting and the inculcation of the skill of critical thinking) and dietary improvement. For example, an emphasis on the virtues of marine-based ...

It’s good to know the excellent Janan Ganesh reckons his age (43) is the best possible age to be (“The mid-life noncrisis”, Opinion, Life & Arts, April 12). But his assertion that relationships in ...