Culture
The man with the golden pen
Spy, womaniser, cad: the writer who created James Bond
A new biography tries to make sense of Ian Fleming
The sports page
The Cricket World Cup has a huge hole in it
The West Indies, one of the sport’s best loved teams, are not there
Anyone speak Nynorsk?
The Nobel prize in literature is prestigious, lucrative and bonkers
Lifting the veil on how literature’s most coveted award is judged reveals its arbitrariness
Spelling glee
The stories behind the Oxford English Dictionary
Anyone who finds dictionaries boring has not read Sarah Ogilvie’s new book
Back Story
“Cat Person”, an internet-breaking short story, is back as a film
A tale of dating and consent has many lives and lessons
Going great guns
The AR-15 is a symbol of liberty or loss, depending on whom you ask
A new book, “American Gun”, explores the fraught history of a firearm
Life in the West Bank
A new book revisits a bus crash that killed Palestinian children
“A Day in the Life of Abed Salama” tries to make sense of a senseless accident
Crypto cryptography
Decoding Sam Bankman-Fried, alleged titan of crypto conmen
Michael Lewis challenges assumptions about his mesmerising, maddening subject
Home Entertainment
“Bluey” captures the joys of childhood and parenting
The surprise hit show first aired five years ago and has become a family favourite
World in a dish
Dave Portnoy, an internet personality, has become pizza’s kingmaker
His controversial ratings have brought attention to what makes a good slice
The unreal deal
Hyperreal art is Instagram-worthy and booming
But is it any good? People cannot decide