Koch’s bacillus – the cause of tuberculosis – was identified in 1882, earning the microbiologist Robert Koch the Nobel prize ...

As in Sally Rooney’s previous novels, the main characters in Intermezzo fall in love quickly, tidily and passionately. They meet, their outfits are described, they exchange clipped dialogue and are ...

The Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita: ancient Indian texts that challenge Western categories, yet influenced the course of ...

I have been in something of a Twitter storm over the past few days, all because of an argument about the ethnic diversity of Roman Britain (sounds harmless enough you think, well . . . just see). I ...

Alan Jenkins considers great films adapted from literature that prove the book isn't always better ...

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) pursued two main themes in his work, one now familiar, even commonplace in modernity, the other still under-appreciated, often ignored. The ...

This week, Toby Lichtig goes to see the latest Roald Dahl adaptations, junior critic in tow and Dinah Birch celebrates the enduring power of Ebenezer Scrooge.

Ann Hallamore Caesar is Professor Emerita in Italian Literature at the University of Warwick, and co-author of Modern Italian Literature, 2007 ...

Adam Rutherford is a scientist, writer and broadcaster. His most recent book is Control: The dark history and troubling resent of eugenics, 2022 ...

When I was my students’ age, the idea of an African American literature existing before Richard Wright and Langston Hughes would have been provocative; as an undergraduate I had not heard of ...