Culture

Book review: Chess queens

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.

We talk to Victoria Shepherd about how ten stories of delusion from medieval to modern times shed light on a misunderstood phenomenon.

Vesna Goldsworthy’s beautifully crafted romance is set to the east and west of the Iron Curtain.

In his exhilarating new book, David George Haskell explores how evolution and sound-making go hand in hand.

A century after its publication, is James Joyce’s "Ulysses" still the greatest work of humanist literature?

Two new books examine how we cope with the inevitable, and suggest that Britain has much to learn from other cultures.

Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.