1. Who is Eleni Haifa?

    In the cover essay from our Spring issue, Paul Mason explores how the rise of information technology is transforming the way we think about human character.

  2. Taking off the mask: Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels

    Fatema Ahmed on the Italian writer Elena Ferrante's compelling books, which combines the novel with feminist polemic.

  3. War photography in the age of social media

    Photojournalist Paul Lowe talks to Alice Bloch about his work and images of conflict.

  4. The afterglow of creation

    The story of cosmic background radiation is a classic example of the chaotic way in which scientific discoveries occur, writes Marcus Chown.

  5. The Church rejected me because I'm gay

    Historian Diarmaid MacCulloch talks to Ralph Jones about how personal experience has shaped his ideas about sex and Christianity.

March's top long-reads

More on our Spring issue - out now