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From brain surgeons to comedians and sporting heroes, the United States would be a poorer place if Donald Trump had his way.
The once high-tech tool of world leaders and the financial elite has lost its cutting-edge reputation, aspirational appeal and its customers.
There has been renewed interest in the ideology, particularly among young people in the West, writes Stuart Jeffries.
Friends laughed at Michel Hazanavicius when they heard of his plans to circumvent movie history.
He’s aiming to crack Hollywood, but Tom Hardy is getting typecast as a thug. Can he escape?
How do you turn the July 7 London bombings into a film? Director Rachid Bouchareb tells <b>Stuart Jeffries</b> how it all started.
Without wishing to sound too much like Rex Harrison, let me ask this: Why can’t the English be more like the French?
As a bookshop chain grows bigger, the more it seems to lose its soul. <em>Stuart Jeffries</em> asks what effect this has on publishing.
Gabby Sidibe’s performance in the acclaimed film, <em>Precious</em>, has made her an unlikely star. But she is nothing like her screen persona.
Why would a great sportsman hate his sport? Why wouldn’t he love doing something for a living that makes many of us sick with envy?
One day, Lance Stewart was trying to get out of the tube station in a hurry. "I got off the train and suddenly found myself behind a huge crowd."
As the global financial crisis tightens its grip, sales of Karl Marx’s <i>Das Kapital</i> are booming. Stuart Jeffries offers this handy primer.
It is often said that everybody has a novel in them. The current problem is that so many of us bring that novel out of ourselves and get it published.
She has played a concentration camp survivor and a working-class whistle-blower, but in Mamma Mia! Meryl Streep sings, dances — and does the splits.
David Yates talks sex, money and quidditch with Stuart Jeffries.
Recently, I got an email complaining about an article I’d written. It happens. The angry tone was nothing if not consistent until very near the end. One question. After all that…
It was perhaps the second glass of wine that did it. That, or the dessert of millefeuille aux poires. Or it could have been the blanquette, the bourguignon, or whatever Le…
The Catholic mystic Catherine of Siena claimed that, in a vision, she received the Holy Prepuce or foreskin as a wedding ring symbolising her marriage to Christ. A certain Saint…
One day Wangari Maathai went out with some friends into Nairobi to plant a tree. This was not unusual, given that she has been responsible for planting 30-million trees in Kenya…
It was seven minutes before half time. Real Madrid were 2-0 down against already relegated opponents in May 2004, when David Beckham tackled Real Murcia’s Luis Garcia. The…
