Book review: Vesper Flights
Helen Macdonald explores the luminous complexities of science and the wonder of belonging in the natural world.
Mind, Body & Life
“Digital monsters are our contemporary folklore”
Momo, the Slender Man, a jpg that drives its viewers insane: the online world is crawling with monsters. Dr Vivian Asimos has made it her mission to understand them.
Book review: O, Let Me Not Get Alzheimer’s, Sweet Heaven!
Dementia is the most common cause of death in England and Wales. Should sufferers have the right to end their own lives?
What is the meaning of good health?
Many of us are currently self-diagnosing, but as philosopher Georges Canguilhem argued, disease is not a fixed category.
Book review: Strange Rites
In 'Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World', Tara Burton describes how Americans are improvising new systems of belief.
Book review: Blue Ticket
Sophie Mackintosh’s new novel continues a rich tradition of provocative feminist dystopias.
Stop talking about loneliness
The pandemic has accelerated a trend ongoing for centuries. Let’s call it what it is: alienation.
Hope and the humble bicycle
The bicycle has long been linked to historical moments of social change. Will the pandemic boom in cycling prove revolutionary?
I’m a new man
"My body was gaining strength and vitality and, it has to be said, a certain beauty..."
“Vaccine deniers aren’t ignorant”
Q&A with Jonathan M. Berman, author of "Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement".