Issue: May 2024

A new book maintains that enslaved scribes and readers may have affected the shaping of Christian ideas

Relive the moments when music changed forever

Darwin sidelined the Creator by documenting the slow mechanisms of evolution

Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?

What depths will we need to go to in order to tackle disinformation in our own time?

A lack of empathy goes to the hollowness at the heart of so many Kubrick movies

Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands

Every literary season has a book that comes from nowhere and seems to gallop ahead of the competition

The book world is on its last legs. So how we can bring it back from the dead?

One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024