In 1843, two years before her death at the age of seventy-two, Cassandra Austen told her brother Charles that she had been ‘looking over & destroying some of my Papers’, but was keeping ‘a few letters ...

Are children being burned out by endless exams? Or does rising inequality lie behind the mental health crisis in young people today? @Samfr investigates. Sam Freedman - The Kids Aren’t Alright Sam ...

Are children being burned out by endless exams? Or does rising inequality lie behind the mental health crisis in young people today? @Samfr investigates. Sam Freedman - The Kids Aren’t Alright Sam ...

There is something magnificent about the ambition of Iain McGilchrist’s book. It offers nothing less than an account of human nature and Western civilisation as outcomes of the competition between the ...

Priests have blessed armies and weapons, and sanctioned executions and massacres, but never so widely as in Putin’s Russia. Donald Rayfield on the history of Russian Orthodoxy. Are children being ...

Just before Christmas in 2008, a woman tapped me on the shoulder while I was shopping in the local supermarket and asked if I’d written a book called Quantum. I confessed that I had. As we chatted I ...

‘The whole point of this book’, the award-winning epidemiologist Professor Tim Spector informs readers of Spoon-Fed, ‘is not to tell you how or what to eat’ – a refreshing change for those who have to ...

When Pietro Russell, the anti-hero of A Fool’s Alphabet, thinks of an afterlife, he imagines ‘a hell that is entirely composed of hotel bathrooms’. There will be the bars of soap, too tightly packed ...

Are children being burned out by endless exams? Or does rising inequality lie behind the mental health crisis in young people today? @Samfr investigates. Sam Freedman - The Kids Aren’t Alright Sam ...

Mick Herron’s Slough House spy thrillers are, by now, one of the least well-kept secrets in espionage fiction. Everyone with even half an eye on the genre knows he’s somewhere near the top. He is ...

Are children being burned out by endless exams? Or does rising inequality lie behind the mental health crisis in young people today? @Samfr investigates. Sam Freedman - The Kids Aren’t Alright Sam ...