In the latest issue of Prospect, I've written a piece comparing two of fiction's "ageing masters," Philip Roth and JM Coetzee. The contention of the piece is that, although there are obvious and...

According to most commentators on world power, China is the future, America is the present and Britain is the past. Inside our November issue, however, Walter Russell Mead argues that the history of...

With a big Israel/Palestine summit in Annapolis, Maryland, planned for mid-November, and the US administration looking uncharacteristically willing to broker a new deal, hopes in some quarters are...

Congratulations (again) to Anne Enright, surprise but welcome winner of this year's Man Booker prize. Enright wrote for the magazine back in April 2001 with a moving article about the birth of her...

Prospect bids a sad farewell to journalist and sociologist David Robins, who has died of cancer aged 62. David appears in our current issue with an article on youth violence—a longstanding interest...

Fifty years ago today, the Soviet Union launched the first human-made satellite, Sputnik, and began the era of space exploration. In Prospect's May 2001 issue, Michael Lind and James Pinkerton...

Prospect was saddened to hear about the death of journalist and writer Angela Lambert last week. Angela passed away at the age of 67, after a long illness. She was an occasional contributor to the...

For the October issue of Prospect, we have invited 50 writers and intellectuals to respond to Gordon Brown's call in July for a "British statement of values." What should this statement be and what...

For the last three years, Bartle Bull has contributed to Prospect a series of dispatches from Iraq that have taken a noticeably more optimistic view of the post-conflict society than most coverage in...

It has become the fashion to knock VS Naipaul. Yes, he is a fine prose stylist, and has written some good books (so the wisdom goes), but his recent novels have been shapeless and repetitive and his...