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Subject: Intellectuals & ideas, Science & TechnologyDr Pangloss: the importance of being naked
James Joyce and Oscar Wilde are in trouble over obscenity. It reads like a headline from the 1920s, yet this was a topic making headlines in June 2010, when it emerged that a graphic novel adaptation of Joyce’s Ulysses and a second graphic novel inspired by Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest had both fallen [...]
Subject: Intellectuals & ideasWriters without borders
Tom Chatfield meets Per Wästberg, chairman of the Nobel committee for literature, to discuss translation, his latest novel, and the remarkable story of his life
Subject: Books & literatureNeil Gaiman: the Prospect interview
The cult author discusses his new anthology, the art of the short story, the future of the author, what went wrong in the 1980s, and why life is always going to be stranger than fiction
Subject: Books & literatureThe triumph of the app
Apple’s genius lies in creating desire for its products—and the iPad’s launch is raising the game
Subject: Science & TechnologyHow Britain has changed since 1997
Prospect digs deep into the data to show how life in Britain has been transformed—for better and worse—since Labour took power 13 years ago
Subject: British society, Lifestyle, People & populationsMoulding young minds
Digital culture does not ruin children’s brains. In fact, it may help them learn better
Subject: Science & TechnologyThe return of the master
Martin Amis’s twelfth novel reimagines the sexual revolution as a comedy of manners, with deadly serious intentions
Martin Amis: the Prospect interview
Britain’s most controversial novelist talks to Tom Chatfield about his new book, the sexual revolution, Philip Larkin’s sex life, and why JM Coetzee is no good
Subject: Books & literatureProspect talks to the father of the world wide web
The inside story of how Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt kickstarted a revolution in public data sharing











