Culture

How Tolkien offers consolation in our dark times
Analysis

How Tolkien offers consolation in our dark times

Top 5 books by women in translation, selected by Daniel Hahn
Women in translation

Top 5 books by women in translation, selected by Daniel Hahn

Bridge by Lauren Beukes review: Multiverse thriller by The Shining Girls author delivers
multiverse

Bridge by Lauren Beukes review: Multiverse thriller by The Shining Girls author delivers

The Dive: A clammy, cathartic scuba thriller
Review

The Dive: A clammy, cathartic scuba thriller

boygenius review, Halifax: These brilliant women should be filling out stadiums
Live review

boygenius review, Halifax: These brilliant women should be filling out stadiums

This ambitious multi-location production of The Odyssey has created community theatre on the grandest scale
theatre and community

This ambitious multi-location production of The Odyssey has created community theatre on the grandest scale

Dawn Butler: Growing up with four brothers helped me navigate male-dominated Westminster
politics

Dawn Butler: Growing up with four brothers helped me navigate male-dominated Westminster

Core festival Glasgow review: Chat Pile, Deafheaven, Liturgy at diverse new noise weekender
review

Core festival Glasgow review: Chat Pile, Deafheaven, Liturgy at diverse new noise weekender

How one girl secretly defied Afghanistan’s education ban
Memoir

How one girl secretly defied Afghanistan’s education ban

Top 5 books featuring magical creatures, selected by Katherine Rundell
Fiction

Top 5 books featuring magical creatures, selected by Katherine Rundell

How I enlisted The Archers in an environmental battle for the soul of our countryside
Environment

How I enlisted The Archers in an environmental battle for the soul of our countryside

Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan: Poetry alive with compassion and acceptance
Review

Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan: Poetry alive with compassion and acceptance

Ootlin: A Memoir by Jenni Fagan review: Harrowing truths about the care system
Review

Ootlin: A Memoir by Jenni Fagan review: Harrowing truths about the care system

BE MORE GUS: Catch The Big Issue’s new cartoon series only in the magazine
Cartoon

BE MORE GUS: Catch The Big Issue’s new cartoon series only in the magazine

Devo 50 – UK farewell tour review: Boy, they can Booji
review

Devo 50 – UK farewell tour review: Boy, they can Booji

Fifteen-Love’s Ella Lily Hyland: ‘I’m interested to tell the stories of working-class Ireland’
Interview

Fifteen-Love’s Ella Lily Hyland: ‘I’m interested to tell the stories of working-class Ireland’

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The story of the world’s first drag ABBA tribute band
Review

The story of the world’s first drag ABBA tribute band

No more good cop, bad cop: Revisiting Serpico and Training Day in the wake of global calls to abolish the police
Review

No more good cop, bad cop: Revisiting Serpico and Training Day in the wake of global calls to abolish the police

Professor Alice Roberts: ‘I got sidetracked into academia in a delightful way’
Letter to my Younger Self

Professor Alice Roberts: ‘I got sidetracked into academia in a delightful way’

‘Everybody deserves shelter’: Chat Pile mount heavy challenge to homelessness crisis
Interview

‘Everybody deserves shelter’: Chat Pile mount heavy challenge to homelessness crisis