In 2011, builders in the Rio de Janeiro docklands uncovered the ruins of the Cais do Valongo, a wharf where, between 1780 and ...

Caroline Moorehead salutes the energetic brilliance of the singer Josephine Baker and Aaron Peck discusses the past, present and future of the avant garde We're joined by Harriet Baker, the winner of ...

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Many of us are aware of vaccine controversies. Fewer know much about clinical trials, the randomized controlled studies that test new medical treatments. Yet these crucial processes determine how we ...

“The need to go home … hit me like grief”. Mairéad, the protagonist of Elaine Garvey’s debut novel, is experiencing the feeling of bereavement that often comes when, at the brink of “proper” adulthood ...

In Pablo Picasso’s portrait of Aimé Césaire, drawn after they met at the Soviet-organized World Congress of Intellectuals in Defence of Peace in Poland in August 1948, a man with a long, thin neck and ...

The religious landscape in Britain is undergoing significant transformations that remain only partially understood. Statistical data indicate a general trend of declining religiosity, which is in part ...

The chaos agents who drive Christopher Bollen’s latest thriller belong to two of the most easily overlooked demographics: an old woman and a child. The yawning age gap between the eighty-one-year-old ...

Do we really need another retelling of ancient Irish tales? Well, perhaps. Lisa M. Bitel, in her lively and insightful introduction to Otherworld – her own versions of nine stories selected from three ...

“Few writers are able to create a different world for you to live in”, the TLS said of a new novel, in 1963, “yet Miss [Victoria] Lucas in The Bell Jar has done just this.” This was quite a debut, ...