We meet the novelists behind a new wave of stories exploring the sexual fantasies of midlife women ...

Intellectuals and the Crisis of Politics in the Interwar Period and Beyond (Oxford University Press) by Balázs Trencsényi ...

Epstein hosted a dinner at Harvard in 2004, with attendees including evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers (centre right). Credit: Alamy Stock Photo It was not a huge surprise to find myself in the ...

One of the first events of the 21st century will be the next Census. There has been a Census of the United Kingdom every ten years since 1801 (except for… ...

The Life You Want (Hamish Hamilton) by Adam Phillips Imagine you are at the airport, picking out a new book for the trip, and ...

The term is usually used to describe the geographical area from the eastern Mediterranean to Iran, including Syria, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq. For some, the Middle East ...

If the figures are to be believed, there has never been a better time to be a publisher. In 2022, British publishers sold 669 million physical books, the highest number ever recorded. Last year was ...

In the far reaches of our solar system, over 10 billion miles from the small blue dot we call home, the Pioneer probes are soaring into the oblivion of deep space. However, these cosmic messages in a ...

This article is a preview from the Winter 2014 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. There could be no more daunting intellectual task than setting out to write a history ...

For many generations in societies shaped by Christianity, monogamy has been the almost undisputed champion of relationship norms. In Britain and the US, it has been held up as the dominant – really ...

This piece accompanies Marcus Chown’s feature on the discovery of cosmic background radiation, from the Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. Perhaps the most famous accidental discovery of all is ...

The recent release of the 2021 England and Wales census figures for religion and ethnicity led to the usual debates about who “we” are now. While particular findings attracted attention – most notably ...