Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi lead the conversation: Patrick Wilcken brings us the real Brazil, a country at breaking point; Francesca Wade considers the radical interior designs and desires of the ...

Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi lead the conversation– Thomas Meaney on death (and what to do with the remains) in the West; Professor Amy Knight on how Putin keeps getting away with murder; Edmund ...

IAN SANSOM – Marta Zaraska Meathooked – The history and science of our 2.5-million-year obsession with meat. Mark Schatzker Steak – One man’s search for the world’s tastiest piece of beef ...

With Stig Abell and Lucy Dallas: Raymond Tallis on the ongoing threat to the NHS; Bee Wilson on descriptions of pregnancy and childbirth; and Marjorie Perloff on seeing O. J. Simpson as Othello.

To mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare and Cervantes, Mika Ross-Southall introduces a talk on these two giants of world literature.

Melissa Harrison is adept at blending nature writing with fiction, paying as much attention to her characters’ relationships with the land as she does to those they have with each other. While her ...

In 2008, lions in northern Mozambique began to emerge from the bush and eat people. Over a two-month period, more than twenty-five locals were killed. The writer and biologist Mia Couto, whose ...

Last year in St Louis, during a fiery speech by the president of the NAACP Cornell William Brooks, a group of black agitators in their early twenties stood up before a gathering of older Civil Rights ...

German lyric poetry is one of the great, unsung glories of post-war European literature. Not since the Expressionist era, perhaps not since the Baroque, has there been such a flowering of German verse ...

Nobody understood the power of boundaries better than Charles- Ferdinand Ramuz (1878–1947). A Swiss writer who had to go to Paris to find his voice, he returned to his native canton of Vaud during the ...

The title story that opens Jessie Greengrass’s debut An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It returns to the mid-nineteenth century, when the last of the great auks (a ...

“To be American is to be blank, and a true American is truly blank. Thus, all in all, Josie was a truly great American.” This is Dave Eggers’s narrator, at the beginning of his latest novel, Heroes of ...