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Good titles are hard to find but they make all the difference, writes Emma Brockes.
Poverty means bad jobs, credit and housing. But even worse is the assumption you aren’t trying hard enough, as Linda Tirado’s angry memoir proves.
Napping cops have inspired an addition to the workplace lexicon, the term "cooping".
Kathryn Bigelow, director of Zero Dark Thirty, which some say endorses torture, defends her movie.
The ‘Baywatch’ and ‘Knight Rider’ star talks frankly about how he has come to terms with the semi-ironic fame he achieved in the past decade.
Nadine Gordimer speaks to Emma Brockes about the urge to write, what will happen when Mandela dies, and being a white African.
Marilynne Robinson, who has just won the Orange Prize, shuns big clichéd adventures and chooses to focus on the small, quiet dramas.
Photographs of Abu Ghraib abuses shocked the world. Seven were charged, but the face of the scandal will always be Lynndie England.
Naomi Campbell refers to Nelson Mandela, as is the custom among famous young women who have met him at least twice, as ”granddad”. Emma Brockes talks to Ms Campbell, currently in…
Emma Brockes delves into the dark side of legendary director, actor and writer Woody Allen.
Noam Chomsky (76) has been voted the world’s top public intellectual by London-based Prospect magazine. But he has no interest in that. He believes that there is a misconception…
Despite Salman Rushdie’s reputation as someone who, when he isn’t out partying, makes statements about partying, his is not a brash presence, writes Emma Brockes, who spoke to…
Stephen Hawking’s book A Brief History of Time clung to the bestseller lists for 237 weeks. He has now published a new, more accessible version of the book. In a rare interview…
I visit Timothy Chan on the day China’s rich list is published and he, a baby-faced 31-year-old, appears at number two. He is chairperson of Shanda Entertainment, a computer…
No one knows how old he is. Brown says he is in his early 70s; it is whispered abroad that he may be nearer to 80. But the original sex machine is still packing them in — and…
From shocking sex to brutal separations, Hanif Kureishi has never been afraid to tackle difficult subjects in his writing — and his latest film is no different. But his kitchen…
He is one of the world’s most successful musicians, introduced Guy Ritchie to Madonna and has been honoured by the queen. He has written his memoirs — and doing it plunged him…
From his makeup to his music, there is nothing Marilyn Manson likes more than to shock. But behind the pose, has he really got anything to say – and why does he prefer living…
From his makeup to his music, there is nothing Marilyn Manson likes more than to shock. But behind the pose, has he really got anything to say — and why does he prefer living…
Here are some words used by DBC Pierre to describe himself, the day after winning the Man Booker Prize: freak, dickhead, arsehole, dumb, farting machine, awkward and bumbling.…
