Book review: Between Light and Storm
Examining the complex ethical issues surrounding our treatment of animals, Esther Woolfson asks us to re-evaluate our complicity.
Culture
Is colourblind casting a black-and-white issue?
Period dramas traditionally exclude non-white actors. Does the practice of colourblind casting address the problem – or is it more complex than that?
Book review: Islands of Abandonment
Cal Flyn finds cause for hope in even the most toxic and despoiled of environments.
Book review: Ravenna
A striking history of the Italian city illuminates the relationship between Byzantium and western Europe.
Book review: Dostoevsky in Love
A credible and sensitive portrait of the Russian novelist's deepest feelings and inner demons, told through the three great relationships of his life.
In a word: denier
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses.
The Cosmos & Us w/ Jo Marchant
We're taken on a dazzling journey through the history of science, mythology and our relationship with the night sky.
High art for all
How have we been tricked into thinking that cultural excellence is elitist?
Book review: Behind Closed Doors
The cleaners given a voice in Nick Duerden's new book are cultural anthropologists, with unique access to our private lives.
Travel guidebooks to lost lands are a challenge to nationalism
A new series of guidebooks to places that no longer exist offers a nuanced vision of national identity