Sphen the gay penguin died earlier this year. He was eleven years old. He and his partner, Magic, had shared the raising of ...

From the late 1980s onwards, novelists, artists, critics and art historians have foreseen the death of postmodernism. Linda Hutcheon, in the second edition of The Politics of Postmodernism (2002), ...

It is 200 years since Mary Shelley published Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, her attempt to gather together the poems and fragments of her husband, who had died two years earlier when his ...

Editors and writers join Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark to talk through the week's issue. Subscribe for free via iTunes, Spotify and other podcast platforms ...

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

A new translation of the work Simone Weil considered her greatest ...

At the end of Chapter III of Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Alice emerges from the Lethean wood, is promptly abandoned by ...

According to conventional wisdom, religions are systems of belief. Religious people are “believers”. Christians believe that Jesus rose from the dead; Muslims believe that Mohammed was the final ...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the British novel was at the pinnacle of its popularity and ambition. But it faced an existential crisis: how could realist fiction represent the ...