Think of a mystery musical instrument. If a physicist is told the loudness of the sound it makes at every possible frequency, ...

Carroll also acknowledges that far-right tropes continue to permeate the genre. It’s not hard to think of examples of narratives like, say, Avengers: Endgame in which, as Carroll says, “militaristic ...

In every chapter we find the author in a different bothy (11 in Scotland, one in Wales), usually escaping some undetailed ...

From atheist YouTuber to praying for divine revelation, what has happened to Alex O’Connor?

From "The Face" exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery to "Leigh Bowery!" at Tate Modern, young people are fascinated by the 80s – but they should remember the politics as well as the fashion ...

London's Soho in 1976 The Diaries of Mr Lucas: Notes from a Lost Gay Life (Atlantic Books) by Hugo Greenhalgh Meet George Leo Lucas. At the turn of the 1970s, he is a middle-aged civil servant in ...

Dawn today is a line of apricot beyond the trees. It starts as a smudge behind Credenhill, the silhouettes of pines sketching themselves in. The valley seems sunk in half-light, without birdsong. But ...

It’s understandable that, as soon as it was permitted, Catholics would seek to entrench their faith by creating their own schools – and they founded Catholic schools for the poor as well as the rich.

But Trump likes people who like him, and these people liked him. By the fall of 2015, White-Cain was arranging meetings between the would-be president and charismatic religious leaders. These were ...

The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power and People (Princeton University Press) by Paul Seabright Not long ago, religion seemed to be in terminal decline. But, as Paul Seabright ...

In May, Noland Arbaugh became the first recipient of a Neuralink brain-computer interface. The 29-year-old had suffered a spinal injury while swimming – an accident that left him paralysed from the ...