Why literary writing should celebrate working-class culture
There’s a haunting story by Leon Garfield about a clerk who sells seven years of his own life to a…
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Rediscovering the sacred
Why we need to reacquaint ourselves with the art of scripture.
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The perils of the human imagination
Ideas drive history. But what if most ideas are evil?
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Get rich or litigate trying: the story of the Winklevoss twins
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are “mirror” twins, which means that they came not only from a single fertilised egg, but…
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NS Recommends: New books from John Browne, Lucy Hughes-Hallett and Kate Atkinson
Browne’s Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering the Future of Civilisation, Hughes-Hallet’s Fabulous, and Atkinson’s Big Sky.
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Mankind’s inner ant: why humans swarm together
Like ants, humans have warlike tendencies and colonial ambition. But our capacity to accept others sets us apart.
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From Cuba to Greeneland: Graham Greene’s long relationship with the island republic
The story behind Our Man in Havana reveals a life tied up with espionage and betrayal.
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How black culture went mainstream
In a global marketplace, Britain’s multiracial culture is arguably its biggest selling point – but its history of racism still casts…
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