Culture
Electioneering
How podcasts came to rule America’s campaign conversation
Cosy chats have replaced hard-hitting interviews
The Economist watches
The best film and TV featuring fictional American elections
Escape from the real-life drama of November 5th by watching these titles
The theory of evolution
Darwin and Dawkins: a tale of two biologists
One public intellectual has spent his career defending the ideas of the other
A Mexican wave
Made in Mexico: why the new Hollywood is south of the border
Streamers and audiences can’t get enough Mexican drama
You look so familiar
Can there ever be another great le Carré novel?
John le Carré’s son has written a bold new thriller in the vein of the great spy writer’s chronicles
Sexy time
Is the idea of sexual identity relatively new?
A new history of American sexuality argues that it is
The setting Son?
Softbank’s gambling founder, Masayoshi Son, is catnip for authors
But readers will remember him as much for his missteps as for his successes
Opposing Putin’s tyranny
In a posthumous memoir, Alexei Navalny chronicles his martyrdom
“Patriot”, by the murdered Russian opposition leader, will be seen as a historic text
Why do you Tok like that?
TikTok is changing how Gen Z speaks
On social media new words spread far and fast
Back Story
What the row over Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book reveals about free speech
The deep message of “The Message” is about narrow-mindedness, not Israel