“Oh, I thought you were a man!” were the words uttered by the pioneering nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford when he first met Lise Meitner, the scientist who would go on to discover nuclear fission.

A review by Mario Vargas Llosa of Paper Tigers: The ideal fictions of Jorge Luis Borges by John Sturrock, first published in the TLS of April 28, 1978 ...

In her Reith Lecture in 2017, Hilary Mantel reflected that the historical novelist “works away at the point where what is enacted meets what is dreamed, where politics meets psychology, where private ...

Over the past few years there has been a boom in scholarly studies of the Palace of Westminster, both as a historic building and in its present vulnerable ...

Leo Tolstoy hoped to finish Anna Karenina quickly. Within a year of beginning the novel in early 1873, he was already looking forward to its rapid publication in book form. The entire “carcass” of ...

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The British biologist J. B. S. Haldane once quipped that “there is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god”. The concept of “playing God” is a ...

Tomorrow the aliens will invade. Don’t look so surprised. You’ve had plenty of warning. These alien invaders will turn out to be incredibly intelligent: ...

Carrie Etter moved from her hometown of Normal, Illinois to England in 2001. In “Fatherhood”, from her fourth collection of poems, The Weather in Normal (2018), she writes that the weather where and ...

Before Clio Barnard, Gurinder Chadha or even Sally Potter, there was Muriel Box. Between 1952 and 1964 Box directed thirteen features – more than any ...