We meet the novelists behind a new wave of stories exploring the sexual fantasies of midlife women ...

Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond (Oxford University Press) by Balázs Trencsényi ...

The Life You Want (Hamish Hamilton) by Adam Phillips Imagine you are at the airport, picking out a new book for the trip, and ...

Tourette syndrome hit the headlines this year following the success of I Swear, a film following the life story of activist John Davidson. The film picked up two trophies at the Baftas in February, ...

Epstein hosted a dinner at Harvard in 2004, with attendees including evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers (centre right). Credit: Alamy Stock Photo It was not a huge surprise to find myself in the ...

Renting in England can be bleak. Many of us have lived, at some point in our lives, in a dingy, drafty, dilapidated flat, whose owner is squeezing as much profit as possible from the arrangement.

Historian Callum G. Brown has spent his career charting secularisation and social change. In Ninety Humanists and the Ethical Transition of Britain he zooms in on a particularly tumultuous period, ...

I Told You So! Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right (St Martin’s Press) by Matt Kaplan We like to think that science is guided by a noble ideal: evidence rules. When ...

David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA-winning filmmaker. He is professor of public history at the University of Manchester. His most recent television series ...

In 1786, Sir William Jones, a British philologist and judge, made the remarkable discovery that the ancient Indian language Sanskrit resembled Latin and Greek, “bearing to both of them a stronger ...

Naomi Alderman is a novelist, games writer, broadcaster and producer. Her debut novel “Disobedience”, which follows a rabbi’s bisexual daughter as she returns to her Orthodox Jewish community having ...

In the far reaches of our solar system, over 10 billion miles from the small blue dot we call home, the Pioneer probes are soaring into the oblivion of deep space. However, these cosmic messages in a ...