Tse explores similar themes in City Like Water (also translated by Bruce), the first and longest piece in her 2020 short ...

Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works (Princeton) by Helen Pearson Helen Pearson’s Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works tells a story that is at once reassuring and ...

Professor Justin Smith-Ruiu on how magic mushrooms gave him a deeper understanding of ideas he’d studied for decades ...

Female longing is having a cultural moment and midlife women are taking the limelight. Confounding societal expectations that older women should fade into sexual invisibility or conform to a selfless ...

Book review: Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond (Oxford University Press) by Balázs Trencsényi Ever the lover of fantasy, the English author and thinker H. G.

Middle East, 1876: An extensive area of south-west Asia and northern Africa No matter how absurd it is to talk of a place called the “Middle East”, we persist in doing so. Given that the world is a ...

Nick Lowles is the founder and chief executive of anti-racism group Hope Not Hate. What do you make of the rise of the Christian right in Britain? What we’ve seen over the last 10 or 15 years, but ...

Sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov’s prescient genius produced a series of classic stories, collected together as I, Robot, in which intelligent machines are confronted with existential issues. However, even ...

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 ...

When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ended his exile and flew to Iran in 1979, covering women with headscarves and pushing minorities to the margins, I doubt he imagined that after 47 years his Islamic ...

In our age of Ozempic and “looksmaxxing”, we’re under huge pressure to alter our bodies, while a brutal online dating culture ranks us as rivals. Changing our physique gives us freedom and agency. But ...

If you feel pressure about your body, you’re not alone. Women have always had it bad – but now the health and beauty industries are coming for men, too. And the pressures are constantly deepening. In ...