Culture

Filming Kurt Vonnegut, the “Christ-loving atheist”

A new documentary on the counter-cultural novelist, directed by Robert Weide, has kindness at its heart.

Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.

Hannah Rose Woods asks us to see British history as it was, rather than what we imagined it might have been.

A new book on the French Revolution’s leading crusader asks how a champion of human rights became the master of the guillotine.

Many shows have responded to the #MeToo movement, but HBO's "Hacks" took a more nuanced approach.

She has dedicated three books to exploring her university experience. What is at stake in Elif Batuman's continuous self-portraiture?

Jennifer Shahade is a champion, and a fan of "The Queen's Gambit" – but her book shows women in chess have a long way to go.

Writing from behind bars as a political prisoner in Egypt, Alaa Abd El-Fattah asks us to take action.

As a schoolboy, Laurie Taylor was warned that Protestant girls were "expert in the art of temptation".

In teaching philosophy to prisoners, Andy West is confronted with the shadow of jail-time hanging over his own family.