Book review: A Nose and Three Eyes
Ihsan Abdel Kouddous's classic novel is published in English for the first time
Culture
Dead malls and dreams
All over Britain, shopping centres are closing down. Can these retail paradises be replaced by new public spaces?
Meet India’s revolutionary gender fluid dance troupe
Lok Rang Noor Art is breathing new life into a traditional "woman's dance"
Relics of a revolution
An exhibition of objects from the French Revolution contains echoes of today's volatile world
Into the ether
A major retrospective of digital art illuminates our changing relationship with the virtual world
Book review: Absolution
This prequel to the Southern Reach trilogy breaks every rule – unsurprising for Jeff VanderMeer, the king of new weird fiction
Age rebels, unite!
Meet the older people fighting discrimination. They might teach the rest of us how to live a good life
The joy of crowds
Crowds are often portrayed as risky, but they also have the potential to bring joy and liberation, as Dan Hancox explores in a new book
Q&A: Richard Dawkins on our immortal genes
We talk to the renowned evolutionary biologist about how we can read the history of life on Earth through modern genes
In a word: War
The latest from Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses