Natasha Solomons
Natasha Solomons is the author of the novel ‘I, Mona Lisa’ published by Hutchinson Heinemann in February 2022. Follow her at @natashasolomons
What’s behind that enigmatic smile?
The author of a new novel about the Mona Lisa explores the history of the world’s most famous painting
Strawberry fields? Never
The idea of toughening zoomers up with hard labour is a pointless fantasy
AI and the great data robbery
Silicon Valley has stolen huge amounts of original material in order to “train” its GPT models
The stories of a cemetery
There is much to learn about human life in a graveyard
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
Eroticism contra porn
Sex scenes should be salvaged from hardcore pornography
The Greens are worse than useless
Their reputation for being nice if a touch naive is far too generous
Nigel Farage had a point on Ukraine
Putin is the aggressor, yes, but Western states still behaved irresponsibly
Culture war, what is it good for?
Women will continue to battle for our rights
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage