Koch’s bacillus – the cause of tuberculosis – was identified in 1882, earning the microbiologist Robert Koch the Nobel prize ...

What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? Always question, never be afraid to change when the answer is “change”. To what extent, in your view, is writing a political act? To a very large extent.

Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi lead the conversation: why eat meat?; how political was Shakespeare, and does it matter?; the ethics of dust at the Houses of Parliament; a report from Taksim Square, as ...

It is misleading to include sculpture in a list of Baudelaire’s dislikes, as Seth Whidden does in his review of the Œuvres complètes (September 6). This commonly held prejudice is based on his Salon ...

JON DAY – Jules Boykoff Power Games: A political history of the Olympics; David Goldblatt The Games: A global history of the Olympics ...

With Stig Abell and Lucy Dallas: Raymond Tallis on the ongoing threat to the NHS; Bee Wilson on descriptions of pregnancy and childbirth; and Marjorie Perloff on seeing O. J. Simpson as Othello.

IAN SANSOM – Marta Zaraska Meathooked – The history and science of our 2.5-million-year obsession with meat. Mark Schatzker Steak – One man’s search for the world’s tastiest piece of beef ...

PAUL REITTER – Karl Kraus – The Last Days of Mankind; Translated by Fred Bridgham and Edward Timms. SARA HOUSTON – Nadine George-Graves, editor – The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater. ROBERT ...

This handsome new edition is marred only by the occasional heavy-handed editorial note and a few minor Russianisms that have crept into the text – “comrades” instead of “classmates” (tovarishchi), ...

In 2008, lions in northern Mozambique began to emerge from the bush and eat people. Over a two-month period, more than twenty-five locals were killed. The writer and biologist Mia Couto, whose ...

Uranium is among the heaviest naturally occurring elements in the periodic table, and as the source material for the atomic bomb and nuclear power, its importance in human affairs is clear. Many ...