Shorter cuts: news doesn’t get any smaller
The rise of hay-smoking, good news for older mums and the coming of a gay superheroHay smokedSeeing this a lot on menus. As in: "hay-smoked butter", "hay-smoked salmon". Don't understand how it works, but it tastes good.Good news for older mums!It's n...
Shorter cuts: news doesn’t get any smaller
The rise of hay-smoking, good news for older mums and the coming of a gay superheroHay smokedSeeing this a lot on menus. As in: "hay-smoked butter", "hay-smoked salmon". Don't understand how it works, but it tastes good.Good news for older mums!It's n...
Jay McInerney: ‘I was fortunate to get a lot of mileage out of my vices’
He might have quit drugs but the celebrated American author hasn't given up on hedonism – breakfast is always improved with a bottle of the world's best wineLunch with Jay McInerney, it has to be said, is a more than usually enticing prospect. Althou...
Putting our lives on the page
Alison Bechdel turned her relationship with her father into a bestselling memoir. Now it's her mother's turnThe first time Alison Bechdel wrote about her family was at college. She was doing "very, very badly" in an English class, and decided to write ...
David Starkey: My family values
The historian talks about his familyI was born at the Helm Chase nursing home in Kendal and I still have the receipt. It was before the National Health Service so you had to pay. It was £3 and something, which was three times what my father earned in ...
Alain de Botton: let’s talk about sex – live Q&A
Join Alain de Botton at 12pm to debate sex, love, desire and the dilemmas of modern sexualityAs part of a series of self-help volumes he edited, Alain de Botton has written a self-help book about sex – he wrote for us about the concept of "self-help"...
The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst's elegant and erudite novel about the life and legacy of a gay war poet shows how truth is compromised by the erasures of remembrance and historyIt is seven years since Alan Hollinghurst won the 2004 Booker prize for The Line of Beaut...
Take that, fanboys
Kapow! is a comic convention run by sisters – but will women ever be welcomed by the boys' club?It's a world where guys have superpowers and the girls are very often disempowered. But now two Glasgow-based women are attempting to shake up the often m...
Where there’s muck there’s a class
Nick Duerden recalls his first – and best – school trip to a farm run by writer Michael Morpurgo and his wife, Clare, who have given thousands of inner-city children a taste of nature since the 1970sI was 10 and it was my first school trip – my f...
A voyage round Agatha Christie
Would the queen of crime have written her books if she hadn't been abandoned by her husband? Joanna Moorhead meets the writer's grandsonIf there lurks anywhere in an Agatha Christie novel a small boy, perhaps one who enjoys tennis or cricket and loves ...
Migraines: they are all in the head