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Carlo Rovelli: Can we know how it feels to be someone else?

Steven Pinker: Common knowledge can start revolutions

How to write when everything’s in flux

Katherine Rundell: In today's world, wonder is political

James Marriott: what happens when we stop reading?

Salman Rushdie: "I feel a line of connection with 9/11"

RF Kuang is back with her most personal story yet

Simon Sebag Montefiore on Israel, Gaza and a Middle East in crisis

This is how Ukrainian artists are fighting back

Why we must unite working class communities across racial divides

Britain is losing its libraries and its cultural memory

Why is sex political?

Can we separate great art from bad artists?

Odyssey mania is upon us

Was the American revolution really American?

"I thought Jimmy Carter was black" | Tayari Jones interview

Will Hockney be remembered as one of the greats?

Does travel actually broaden the mind?

This house believes that Britain’s best days are behind it

Can architecture be democratic?

Katja Hoyer: How fascism takes hold of a city

Munya Chawawa: Trump's presidency is based on WWE

William Boyd on spy fiction and the British psyche

James Baldwin would be a leading progressive voice today

Mark Gatiss: What it's like to play Hitler

Are we truly living in 'Orwellian times'?

When it comes to the Moon, we've only scratched the surface

What was life like before capitalism?

What do mushrooms have to do with consciousness? with Michael Pollan

How Elon Musk redefined power

How KPop Demon Hunters became the biggest event of the year

Metrics now control our lives

What it’s like to be played by Claire Foy

Does reading make you a better person? with Dominic Sandbrook

Wuthering Heights is a disgusting film, but is it a love story?

Is the climate crisis spiritual? The King thinks so

Infinite Jest is a novel for 2026

People around the world are falling in love with AI

Why are we so obsessed with Japan?

Salman Rushdie is in "the 9th or 10th hour"

After two decades of silence, Kiran Desai returns

Author Nicola Barker: "we are all weirdos"

Whit Stillman: renaissance of a cult film icon