A stranger in your own land
Two new books delve into the grief of migration and the longing for lost homelands.
Culture
Book review: Work Pray Code
Carolyn Chen asks what happens to us, and what happens to religion, when people worship work.
Time for a new renaissance?
Where are the new big ideas? At HowTheLightGetsIn festival, a scientist, a philosopher and a journalist discuss whether Britain's intellectual culture is stagnating – and if so, what can we…
Book review: The Slowworm’s Song
Andrew Miller’s tale of a former soldier seeking redemption was published close to the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
Filming Kurt Vonnegut, the “Christ-loving atheist”
A new documentary on the counter-cultural novelist, directed by Robert Weide, has kindness at its heart.
In a word: scandal
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
Book review: Rule, Nostalgia
Hannah Rose Woods asks us to see British history as it was, rather than what we imagined it might have been.
Robespierre: man of virtue or terror?
A new book on the French Revolution’s leading crusader asks how a champion of human rights became the master of the guillotine.
Television is still processing #MeToo, with mixed results
Many shows have responded to the #MeToo movement, but HBO's "Hacks" took a more nuanced approach.
Elif Batuman: the woman in the mirror
She has dedicated three books to exploring her university experience. What is at stake in Elif Batuman's continuous self-portraiture?