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What I've learned in 50 years of marriage
4+ hour, 6+ min ago (1604+ words) Saturday 25 April 2026 My wife and I have never "done" wedding anniversaries. Neither of us can even remember the date, 50 years ago. The 15th, or 16th " it was Maundy Thursday, I think. And yet it now appears we've been married for half a'century,…...
LSO/ Pappano: The Dream of Gerontius review " Elgar at his most electrifying
6+ hour, 29+ min ago (44+ words) Saturday 25 April 2026 O, The Observer Magazine How to live well " new writing on food, style, design, travel and shopping from our best writers, including Nigel Slater Letters: "Unsafe" convictions are not a lost cause English Touring Opera"s tale of…...
Mark Jenkin: "I wanted to show Cornwall isn't a backwater. ..
4+ hour, 6+ min ago (871+ words) Saturday 25 April 2026 Jenkin's aesthetic consciously evokes the subconscious" because he believes only film can imitate a dream. His work is hand-shot and hand-developed; scratched, eerie and remote. But " and this is one of the paradoxes of his work " it feels…...
Railsong hitches a ride to the heart of modern India
7+ hour, 24+ min ago (132+ words) Saturday 25 April 2026 In his debut novel, The Sly Company of People Who Care (2011), a twentysomething Indian journalist moves to Guyana for a year to "escape the deadness of the life one was accustomed to." His encounters with tempestuous diamond hunters,…...
Yann Martel's Trojan folly
2+ hour, 19+ min ago (196+ words) Saturday 25 April 2026 There are other weaknesses. Harlow's Oxford supervisor, cold, snobbish" and autocratic, is straight from the property basket of half a century ago. The savage mutual cruelty of Harlow and his wife needs some hinterland that is never even…...
It's civil war in the preggosphere
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (359+ words) Friday 24 April 2026 Illustration by David Foldvari There are people who will tell you that pregnancy is a magical experience. These people are bores and liars, and they should not be trusted." Nobody wants to hang out with you any more,…...
A new Nazi database prompts Germans to confront their fam. ..
18+ hour, 23+ min ago (1306+ words) Friday 24 April 2026 For more than 40 years, the question had burned: was her great-grandfather a member of the Nazi party? He had worked as a train driver during the Nazi era and flew into a rage whenever the war came up…...
Why Bordeaux is drowning in wine
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (165+ words) Friday 24 April 2026 To put it mildly, things aren't looking good for Bordeaux's wine business right now. As the ch'teaux owners busy themselves with hosting the region's annual showpiece, the en primeur tastings (a springtime preview of the latest vintage for…...
Eyal Weizman: "It is my duty to work for the liberation o. ..
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (437+ words) Friday 24 April 2026 Portrait by Sophia Evans The bodies under the rubble, at least "14 of them, are still there (and there were others in surrounding houses). They were cousins of a "Palestinian colleague at" FA. She was in the studio, watching…...
Trump's social media sabre-rattling won't get Iranians to. ..
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (401+ words) Thursday 23 April 2026 Overlaid with tinkling music, the latest artificial intelligence offering shared by an Iranian diplomatic mission shows a furious Donald Trump at the negotiating table. "If Iran doesn't come to negotiate we're going to bomb them," he fumes, to…...