As the singer releases her sixth solo album Mayhem, let’s celebrate her as a champion of queerness, reinvention and ...

Bangladesh’s student revolution unleashed chaos and sectarian violence. Can the coming elections renew its democracy?

As white Christian nationalists seek to reshape the United States, we hear from the frontlines of the resistance ...

It’s been a month or two since we got back. Out dog walking, I bumped into one of my neighbours who had been on the trip.

Selma Dabbagh is a British-Palestinian writer and lawyer, based in London. Her fiction is mainly set in the contemporary Middle East and has been nominated for major awards. There’s a lot of reportage ...

“Truth’s a menace, science is a public danger,” says Mustapha Mond, the “Controller” in Aldous Huxley’s iconic dystopian novel Brave New World. “That’s why we so carefully limit the scope of its ...

People are often surprised that I spend so much time with Corry, my ex-husband’s second wife, and that I speak so fondly of her. I love the woman, so do my children, and she loves them. Obviously, she ...

Dawn today is a line of apricot beyond the trees. It starts as a smudge behind Credenhill, the silhouettes of pines sketching themselves in. The valley seems sunk in half-light, without birdsong. But ...

If you’re the proud owner of a dog or cat, you might get the distinct impression that your pet has a sense of humour. They don’t literally tell jokes, of course, but many species of animal seem to ...