Couple stays at Row NYC. Then the hotel accused them of smoking without proof and a $500 charge appears at 3 am: ‘We googled that’ There's a concerning pattern emerging in NYC. We Got This Covered · Aug 9
Tell us: are you wearing the new Meta glasses? If you’re wearing the new glasses, we want to know more about how you’re using them. We’d also like to hear from people about how they feel about others around them wearing the glasses The Guardian - UK · Jul 18
Seasonal Quartet: Ali Smith and New European Ensemble review – words and music connect New pieces written in response to the novelist’s works by Kate Moore, Alice Yeung, Seung-Won Oh and Sara Zamboni made for ravishing harmonies and interplay in an unusual concert The Guardian - UK · Jul 3
From tents to trebles: Edinburgh book festival to set author’s words to music Works of Ali Smith, Kathleen Jamie and more to feature in celebration of literature’s interplay with other art forms, says director The Guardian - UK · Jun 16
How to Cut the Cost of Pet Care Use our guide to spend less on veterinary visits, medicine, food and more. Kiplinger · May 25
The Smart, Scandalous and Seriously Hyped Books to Read This February Your 2026 reading list starts here Marie Claire · Feb 16
Primate to Tyler Ballgame: the week in rave reviews Johannes Roberts directs a concise chimp-gone-wild shocker, and the critically loved crooner releases his debut album. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews The Guardian - UK · Jan 31
Industry’s Faustian pact, a Welsh detective drama, and the return of Bridgerton – what to watch, read and listen to this week I don’t think my new year’s resolution – to take a lunch break every day – would much impress the cast of Industry. In the BBC show’s fourth series, the idea that work might pause politely at midday feels almost quaint, like a relic of a slower moral universe. The Conversation · Jan 30
Ali Smith’s Glyph is an exhilarating and excoriating follow-up to Gliff Ali Smith’s Glyph is the companion novel to her earlier novel, Gliff (2024). Gliff was set in a surreal near-future dystopia. Glyph, meanwhile, is set in the present. But like Smith’s earlier Seasonal Quartet, it offers the reader an uncanny version of our world, haunted by ghostly voices from the… The Conversation · Jan 28
Glyph by Ali Smith review – bearing witness to the war in Gaza This second novel in a sharp duology offers a powerful interrogation of language in the age of mechanical mass destruction The Guardian - UK · Jan 27
Can art enhance your life? Here’s what I learned from Ali Smith, Tracey Emin, Claudia Winkleman and more In our always online, AI-imperilled lives, simply looking at a painting can improve wellbeing and offer creative guidance. For my new book, artists and writers shared their advice on how to live life artfully The Guardian - UK · Nov 10, 2025
Influential women urge Labour to include asylum seekers in plan to tackle violence Exclusive: Letter warns of ‘two-tier’ system if asylum seekers are excluded from promise to halve violence against women and girls The Guardian - UK · Jul 20, 2025
Dining across the divide: ‘He didn’t believe women still face discrimination in the workplace’ They had different views on gender equality. Could they agree on the European convention on human rights? The Guardian - UK · Jun 22, 2025
Syrian general says missing US journalist Austin Tice was killed Bassam Hassan, a top general under Assad, reportedly gave news regarding American who went missing in 2012 The Guardian - US · Jun 16, 2025
The Conversation · Dec 16, 2024 The ten best novels of 2024 – according to literary experts With Something Good, the arts and culture newsletter from The Conversation UK, we aim to cut through the noise and recommend the very best in new releases every fortnight. In 2024, we’ve been spoiled for choice when it comes to recommending fiction. From Samantha Harvey’s spellbinding Booker winner Orbital to…
The Guardian - UK · Nov 9, 2024 Fortnum & Mason apologises for party snub to UK Paralympians Olympians and Paralympians attended a Buckingham Palace reception, but only the former were asked to a following event hosted by the luxury food retailer
The Conversation · Nov 4, 2024 Scents of the Middle Ages and emo nostalgia – what you should read, watch and do this week I’ve always been a history nerd, but it wasn’t until I started working at The Conversation that I really caught the medieval bug. Inspired by our academic experts, I’ve read books, trawled online archives, and when I worked on an article about the Book of Kells earlier this year, I…
The Guardian - UK · Nov 2, 2024 Gliff by Ali Smith review – reading the signs of crisis Two children decode a dystopia, in a chilling and wistful novel that speaks to our times
Evening Standard · Oct 31, 2024 Gliff by Ali Smith review: a poetic, dystopian puzzlebox “See what a simple line, a visible mark of the utmost simplicity and cheapness, can do to a populace?” In Ali Smith’s new novel, Gliff, that line is painted in crude bright red around the houses of those the state has deemed “unverified”. It means ostracisation, re-education and worse. It…
The Conversation · Oct 30, 2024 Ali Smith’s new novel Gliff is a dystopian nightmare with flashes of fairytale enchantment Ali Smith’s Gliff is set “once upon a time, not very far from now”. It is a kind of fairytale of the future in which two children, Briar and Rose, navigate a world which seems increasingly baffling and hostile.
The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2024 Gliff by Ali Smith review – a warning from the near future The author of the seasonal quartet projects her exceptional state-of-the-nation storytelling on to a dystopian tale of a brutal Britain run by totalitarian forces
The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2024 Autumn review – Ali Smith adaptation has humour and charm in spades It is a treat to see this kaleidoscopic meditation on stories and the nature of time brought to the stage, even if at times the play struggles to hold the full weight of its ideas
The Guardian - UK · Aug 25, 2024 The best new novels for autumn 2024, from Sally Rooney to Jonathan Coe and Haruki Murakami The biggest names are back in a stellar season for fiction, with rip-roaring feminist horror, revenge tales, family sagas, spy romps and more. Here’s our essential guide
The Guardian - UK · Jul 12, 2024 Eley Williams: ‘I trusted people far less once I’d finished that novel’ The writer on how a creepy, psychological thriller blew her 13-year old mind, her early outrage at unreliable narrators and taking comfort in Saki
Fortune · Jun 23, 2024 Pets make for the best financial advisers and motivators. They force you to be more mindful about your spending, study shows Pets inspire good money habits such as long-term investments and emergency savings.