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 ...

It is not yet dawn, and Clover Stroud is on the Ridgeway in Oxfordshire, checking the horizon, as she likes to, “just quickly, for giants … a giant would be able to step across the whole plain in one ...

The secret world often attracts eccentrics. When creative, independent thinkers have been embraced by intelligence agencies, they have delivered some of the greatest national security successes. The ...

As the Palestinian-Israeli conflict scales new heights of ferocity and depths of misery, myriad scholars and polemicists continue to clash about its origins. The chief culprit, according to the ...