The myth of human nature; crime at the Vatican; whatever happened to the Loch Ness monster?; Shappi Khorsandi on life without religion; and more...
Its pretensions to a "scientific" experiment long since forgotten, Big Brother shows us how trapped we are in celebrity culture.
Kevin Barry's inventive novel Beatlebone makes the singer someone worth reading about again.
Holding an exhibition that celebrates black British art at the Guildhall, with its colonial legacy, is an act akin to resistance
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A new collection from Doty, the living poet who has arguably done most to find a way of writing about gay urban life.
As a new book reminds us, sport is a useful barometer of moral and social progress.
The talented young director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy is charting Ukraine’s turbulent recent history.
Jon Ronson's new book shows that everyone is fair game.