This year, The Simpsons celebrate their 25th birthday and their 500th episode. Andrew Mueller pays homage to the family we can all believe in
The great Magnum photographer Eve Arnold, who has died aged 99, had a uniquely tender eye, says Max Houghton
Stephen Hawking’s childlike glee in overturning assumptions, especially his own, is what makes him such an iconic scientist, says his biographer Kitty Ferguson
Martin Rowson on the genius of Ronald Searle’s line
Matthew Adams remembers winning a £10 bet, and gaining a lifetime's inspiration from Christopher Hitchens
Laurie Taylor talks sadly to himself
In the aftermath of the firebombing of Charlie Hebdo, reprints of the magazine's Muhammad cover were conspicuous by their absence, notices Frederick Stjernfelt
The great Christian chronicler of Victorian destitution was also a ‘wicked man’. Matthews Adams talks to biographer Claire Tomalin about the conflicted life that fed his art
Chris Maslanka challenges you to work out the Three Bears' exam results
Jenny Bunker enjoys an unusual introduction to Hume