Culture

Book review: The Hitler Conspiracies

Richard J Evans dissects the untruths emerging out of the Second World War, narratives that continue to influence conspiracies to this day.

Adom Getatchew looks back at the African and Caribbean anticolonialists whose ambitions didn't stop at the nation-state.

EBB was a towering literary figure of her age. What does her erasure from the canon say about our culture?

Peter Salmon's new biography "An Event, Perhaps" cuts through the tendency to either adore or dismiss the controversial French philosopher.

"Escape from the Ghetto" by John Carr and "Yellow Star Red Star" by Agnes Kaposi are unflinchingly unsentimental.

Set on the Kent coast, Rosa Rankin-Gee's dystopia of rising sea levels and relocation paints a startling vision of the future.

Ella Al-Shamahi's history of the handshake comes at a time when humanity is reconsidering this ancient gesture, along with its risks and rewards.

Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.

On becoming a dad, philosopher Tom Whyman was confronted with the question: "is it cruel to bring new life into an awful world?"

It has been a bad time for clubbing. But shut away at home, DJs have returned to dance music’s political roots.