The Contemporary Poetry and Music Circle was hugely influential in the post-war years. Its legacy is finally being unearthed ...

In Brazil’s tropical wetlands, ecotourism has forged an uneasy truce between cattle farmers and their old enemies ...

Prequels often feel unnecessary; they indulge in gratuitous over-explication of things that never needed to be explained. Not so with Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution, a prequel to his Southern Reach ...

Michael Mann is professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles ...

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Writer and broadcaster Jenni Murray is presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Her latest book is That's My Boy, a celebration of bringing up sons.

Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities (Oxford University Press) by Cristina Rocha ...

Not long ago, religion seemed to be in terminal decline. But, as Paul Seabright points out in his impressive new book, it is now going from strength to strength. Local cults or “ethno-religions” may ...