An honest account of energy history would conclude not that energy transitions were a regular feature of the past, ...

The novels weren’t the point. The point of Nan Shepherd was herself. My mother described what a thrill it was to ...

No doubt, some individuals have always pulled levers behind the scenes to benefit themselves and their ...

In his third conversation looking at the crisis in the Middle East, Adam talks to Mohamad Bazzi about Israel’s expansion of its war into Lebanon and the recent assassinations of Yahya Sinwar and ...

When diva worship turns an artist into an icon, everyone ...

Children’s fiction has its own peculiar power: like a swordstick in an umbrella, it can flash sharp at unexpected moments. Taken seriously, it can work not just to educate but to transform and ...

Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, better known as The Golden Ass, is the only ancient Roman novel to have survived in its entirety. Following the story of Lucius, forced to suffer as a donkey until the goddess ...

Reagan’s capacity to inhabit and generate legend stemmed from his own impulse to substitute pleasing fictions for inconvenient facts – to the point that fiction replaced factuality altogether.

I always like to say that Iranian cinema emerges out of a thousand years of poetry, and Canadian cinema emerges ...

Tell me your mystic and I will tell you who you are. The Little Flower, she of the astonishing self-love? Hildegard of Bingen, glowing like rock crystal, or Simone Weil, picking herself like a scab?

Book titles are like city buses: they bunch up and arrive in packs. When historians were obsessed with identity, collective nouns proliferated: Citizens (1989), Britons (1992), Commoners (1993), ...

The new CCRC was independent of the government, free to investigate without political interference. It would have sixty staff ...