Being memorable and sticky guarantees a novel a long and healthy life

A catholic sift through humankind’s advent and our eventual, formative babbling and beyond.

How trans activists took over the once worthy gay rights struggle

A body that collects authors’ revenues is going off-book and asking about their gender

There is much to learn about human life in a graveyard

We are all historians of our own here and now

The (not so) gentlemen of 18th-century London were a libidinous lot

Can art reflect a nation’s spirit through its depictions of one of its favourite games?

The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny

There was much naivety in depicting the Anglo-Burmese engagement as one of mutual enlightenment