The Contemporary Poetry and Music Circle was hugely influential in the post-war years. Its legacy is finally being unearthed ...

In Brazil’s tropical wetlands, ecotourism has forged an uneasy truce between cattle farmers and their old enemies ...

Prequels often feel unnecessary; they indulge in gratuitous over-explication of things that never needed to be explained. Not so with Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution, a prequel to his Southern Reach ...

Women dating in their 50s and 60s is now normal and celebrated. Let's take a moment to appreciate how far we've come The painting "Nameless and Friendless" by Emily Mary Osborn (1857) may have been ...

Not long ago, religion seemed to be in terminal decline. But, as Paul Seabright points out in his impressive new book, it is now going from strength to strength. Local cults or “ethno-religions” may ...

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Bill Cooke is the author of The Blasphemy Depot: A Hundred Years of the Rationalist Press Association and six other works on the history of freethought. He teaches philosophy in Warrington.

In March 1928, in Moscow, 53-year-old philosopher and scientist Alexander Bogdanov performed a blood transfusion. He transferred his own blood into a 21-year-old student, Lev Koldomasov, and that of ...

Michael Mann is professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles ...

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