It is not yet dawn, and Clover Stroud is on the Ridgeway in Oxfordshire, checking the horizon, as she likes to, “just quickly, for giants … a giant would be able to step across the whole plain in one ...

Last year in St Louis, during a fiery speech by the president of the NAACP Cornell William Brooks, a group of black agitators in their early twenties stood up before a gathering of older Civil Rights ...

German lyric poetry is one of the great, unsung glories of post-war European literature. Not since the Expressionist era, perhaps not since the Baroque, has there been such a flowering of German verse ...

Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi lead the conversation: Patrick Wilcken brings us the real Brazil, a country at breaking point; Francesca Wade considers the radical interior designs and desires of the ...

IAN SANSOM – Marta Zaraska Meathooked – The history and science of our 2.5-million-year obsession with meat. Mark Schatzker Steak – One man’s search for the world’s tastiest piece of beef ...

Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi lead the conversation– Thomas Meaney on death (and what to do with the remains) in the West; Professor Amy Knight on how Putin keeps getting away with murder; Edmund ...

With Stig Abell and Lucy Dallas: Raymond Tallis on the ongoing threat to the NHS; Bee Wilson on descriptions of pregnancy and childbirth; and Marjorie Perloff on seeing O. J. Simpson as Othello.

To mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare and Cervantes, Mika Ross-Southall introduces a talk on these two giants of world literature.

Melissa Harrison is adept at blending nature writing with fiction, paying as much attention to her characters’ relationships with the land as she does to those they have with each other. While her ...

In 2008, lions in northern Mozambique began to emerge from the bush and eat people. Over a two-month period, more than twenty-five locals were killed. The writer and biologist Mia Couto, whose ...