James Marriott

James Marriott: Fiction is in the doldrums because a truth of today’s hectic world is that you couldn’t make it up

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James Marriott: There can be pleasure and poetry in swearing, especially in an age of fake and evasive speech

★★★★☆In parts of India “the English disease” refers to the plight of foreign travellers who “have psychiatric breakdowns because they get involved in meditation groups”. To most western readers I

Young people are full of new ideas and intensities that we forget we once possessed ourselves

Our culture’s idea that happiness can be found only within ourselves runs counter to history

How will James Marriott, 31, get on without social media, Google Maps and podcasts on the way to work? This is what happened when he downgraded to a no-frills analogue handset

Europe’s greatest cities for art, music and architecture aren’t the ones you’d expect. Follow the footsteps of Freud and the Habsburgs in Munich, Vienna and Prague

Faith in God is enjoying a resurgence in a sign that our culture is less secular than we assume

For years, universities have paid lip service to ‘radical’ causes but these protests are different