Greg Graffin, evolutionary biologist and lead singer of pioneering US band Bad Religion, talks music and rebellion ...

Godwin (4th Estate) by Joseph O’Neill. Joseph O’Neill remains best known for Netherland (2008). Hailed as a Great American ...

Mycorrhizal fungi growing with a plant root. Credit: Dr Yoshihiro Kobae As Giuliana Furci picks her way through the dense, dripping greenery of Chile’s Patagonian forest, her keen eyes are seeking out ...

Credit: James Eades via Unsplash Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter (William Collins) by Kat Hill In the summer of 1847, Oxford academic Arthur Hugh Clough, in a slump, travelled north to the Scottish ...

London's Soho in 1976 The Diaries of Mr Lucas: Notes from a Lost Gay Life (Atlantic Books) by Hugo Greenhalgh Meet George Leo Lucas. At the turn of the 1970s, he is a middle-aged civil servant in ...

Stephen Fry is an actor, comedian, writer and presenter. He is also a patron of Humanists UK and a vocal advocate for mental health. Why is uncertainty an important intellectual value to you? I’m very ...

Labour’s feud over child benefits points to a deeper question: how to balance strategy with doing the right thing Labour has tied itself in knots over the two-child benefit cap. Credit: Alamy ...

Democracy observers were dismayed in January when Meta – owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads – announced that it would be ditching its fact-checking system. The company had previously ...

Years ago, when I was a student at Caltech, I remember the physicist Richard Feynman saying: “You can know more than you can ever prove.” Never was this scientific intuition used to greater effect ...

Prequels often feel unnecessary; they indulge in gratuitous over-explication of things that never needed to be explained. Not so with Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution, a prequel to his Southern Reach ...

In May, Noland Arbaugh became the first recipient of a Neuralink brain-computer interface. The 29-year-old had suffered a spinal injury while swimming – an accident that left him paralysed from the ...

Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think (Princeton University Press) by Helen De Cruz What is wonder? To try to answer the question requires you to perform the mental act that you are ...