“Only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mind”, W. B. Yeats wrote in 1927; “sex and the dead.” ...

In that interlude between 1933 and 1941, when not much was going on in the world, “unquestionably the nastiest looking bit of work that ever dropped on to a breakfast table”, in the words of its ...

If the twentieth century was “the age of anxiety”, then the early decades of the new millennium deserve to be called “the age of horror”, for two related reasons. The first is the rise of social media ...

Almost as much as he is admired for his sea-salted vernacular novels of coastal Western Australia, Tim Winton is admired for being Tim Winton. People admire his publicity-shyness and the fact that ...

Rob Jackson’s Into the Clear Blue Sky is a fascinating exploration of the atmosphere near and far. It is also a reminder that we’re not making much progress towards a future based on clean energy.

Liliana Corobca is a historian of communism in eastern Europe (she carries out archival work on subjects including censorship, book banning, mass deportations and labour camps), and she moonlights as ...