Author Archives: Sameer Rahim
Forget Fleabag, This Country is the comedy that sums up modern Britain
The story of two cousins living in the Cotswolds is hilarious and humane—with a subtle political streak
Clive James—a tribute
Clive's editor remembers a man who remained a consummate writer to the end
Richard Ayoade versus Hollywood
Who will win? Probably Hollywood
Hostile takeover—how a corporation conquered India
From the start British imperialism was about loot, not spreading civilisation
The myth of the golden age of reading
Even before the digital age, book-lovers were always prone to distraction
Prospect world’s top thinkers, 2019: the top ten
Mathematician Caucher Birkar won by a landslide—but who else made the top ten?
The world's top thinkers 2019: who we missed
Interestingly, the names conjured were strikingly different from the kind of thinkers voted into our top 10
On the frontline of the war on truth
Fighting fake news could be ever harder than the Cold War
Where does the left’s race problem come from?
Traditionally tolerant, a new form of essentialism has gripped parts of the left
Keeping it in the family—the art of Hirokazu Koreeda
The director casts a humane eye on modern Japan
Asghar and Zahra—fiction extract
When a honeymoon goes wrong
How an early European encounter with Islam broke stereotypes
A new book on the Ottoman Empire's relationship with contemporary Christians reveals a notable degree of cultural exchange and debate