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.

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 ...

I toyed with reading Rose Boyt’s Naked Portrait: A memoir of Lucian Freud while sitting for an artist friend. A naked portrait reading Naked Portrait. I barely see the artist friend, other than when I ...

Public fascination with Adolf Hitler and his court has barely abated over the nearly eighty years since the end of his “Thousand Year Reich”. As Richard J. Evans points out at the start of his new ...

We begin in 1936, with a candle inside a glass “moon-globe”, which Gabriel Dax’s mother lights. It is a ritual important to a fatherless child, “signifying order and calm”. Soon after, the mother, a ...

Saraid de Silva’s novel follows three Sri Lankan women – the stunt double Annie, her mother, Sithara, and her grandmother Josephina – whose stories, taking us from 1950s Singapore to contemporary ...