How do you do a centenary exhibition for Marilyn Monroe? This is not as straightforward question as it seems, for Monroe was just not another movie star. And she was also not just a movie star. The ...

It is, apparently, none of our business. It’s an entirely private matter. A would-be prime minister trousers £5m from a billionaire living on the other side of the world. So what? Nobody cares. Mind ...

It is almost midnight at the close of 15th June 2026, and I am standing in the middle of a world that is supposed to be ending, not that anyone nearby seems all that concerned by the prospect. In ...

Prospect receives commission when you buy a book using this page. Thank you for supporting us. The art of writing jazz biography is, these days, a race against time. A mere decade and a half ago, ...

In the months after a decisive election, voting intention polls have no predictive value. That is why I have largely ignored them so far. But tracked over time, they do tell us something. That is why ...

Siri Hustvedt has been described as a 21st-century Virginia Woolf. As well as being the award-winning author of novels such as What I Loved (2003), The Summer Without Men (2011) and The Blazing World ...

Ahead of the recent Uxbridge and South Ruislip byelection to replace Boris Johnson as MP (who’d stepped down in disgrace after being found guilty of misleading parliament), 25,000 leaflets were posted ...

The former FBI director is being prosecuted for allegedly threatening the life of the president. He says it’s politically motivated ...

It’s eight years since the chef-provocateur died—he would have turned 70 today—yet he’s still very much remembered and rehashed ...

The Reform leader should be made to understand that transparency is part of standing for high office ...

©BANANA PANCAKE/GETTY IMAGES I’ve seen a good deal in England which suggested that, just maybe, not all was well with the collective psyche—the in-your-face binge drinking, the bookies stoking ...

Every year, Prospect puts together a list of Top Thinkers—a curated list of people who, through their ideas, are making an impact in the world right now—and asks you, the readers of this esteemed ...