Nick Harkaway

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.

The notion of our leaders as patrician ascetics of unassailable virtue is risible.

The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology.

I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should I be saving for them? Which will fade with time?

The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.