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

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 ...

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

The Irish aptitude for storytelling has long been lauded as a national characteristic, and its outlets in different literary ...

Angela Merkel was the first and last East German to lead a united Germany, Europe’s central power. There may be future chancellors who come from the lands that were once the German Democratic Republic ...

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), ...

“Of Laws relative to the Nature of Climates” can be read at the end of this essay. The racial reckoning of the past two years has spared few pillars of British national life from scrutiny. Stately ...

The White House and White nationalism, the crises of capitalism and the Green Dollar, Podemos, En Marche! and the Five Star Movement, Black Lives Matter and #MeToo: in reviews or essays, our writers ...