John Lanchester talks to Thomas Jones about ‘visible’ cheating in sport, that is, the kind which is against the rules but within the ethos of the game, from diving in football to bodyline bowling in..

A character's scathing critique of how one celebrity chef's cookbook conquered British dinner tables and destroyed people's ability to actually cook.

In this week’s Comment, John Lanchester writes about Greece and the euro crisis. On Tuesday, Lanchester answered readers’ questions in a live chat. A transcript of the discussion follows. JOHN ...

John Lanchester writes: I entirely agree with Paul Seabright’s last paragraph. It would be absurd to say that ‘Wal-Mart and companies like it are the root of world poverty.’ I’m not clear what the ...