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  • Book review: Iron Curtain

    A Soviet member of the elite and an English poet build a relationship between the west and east.

  • Is monogamy morally wrong?

    Is it controlling to place emotional and sexual restrictions on your partner?

  • Book review: Sounds wild and broken

    Haskell makes an eloquent, beautiful case for the importance of listening, even as sounds themselves decay into oblivion.

  • Beef stakes

    Before we revolutionise agriculture, we must first learn the lessons from its past.

  • How to dance with the dead

    "All the Living and the Dead" and "This Party's Dead" bring new insight and surprising joy to the biggest subject of them all.

  • Impossible freedom

    In "Freedom: An Impossible Reality", Raymond Tallis proposes "intentionality" as a property unique to humans.

  • For explorer Bruce Parry, the journey home may be the hardest

    Long the itinerant wanderer, Bruce Parry is looking for somewhere to plant his roots – and Wales could be the place.

  • The mental life of mountains

    Thinkers across physics, philosophy and literature believe that even inanimate matter has a mind, of sorts. Is panpsychism worthy of deeper enquiry?

  • No child left behind

    Parents fret that Covid-19 has created a generation of lost children. But this view needs to be corrected.

  • Gods of the green fields

    Marcelo Bielsa, a manager once hailed as "God", has been sacked from Leeds United. When it comes to faith in football, the history of leadership at the club has lessons for us all.