Wally Funk: the remarkable woman who lost the race to get into space
As the 50th anniversary of the Moon landings approach, we must remember the astronauts who might have been.
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Reasons to be cheerless: all the ways in which humanity might soon be obliterated
Remarkably, Martin Rees’s extended menu of our potential fates does not feel as depressing as it ought to.
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The politics of decency: how Peter Carrington exemplified dignified public service
In praise of Carrington’s wit, charm and occasionally acerbic yet accurate descriptions of others.
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Testing paternity: Colm Tóibín on the fathers that shaped Wilde, Joyce and Yeats
How the complicated relationships between three writers and their fathers left its mark on Irish literature.
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Poached: exploring the human impulse to eat, shoot, wear, abuse and trade wild animals
Rachel Love Nuwer’s new book seeks out the people behind the trafficking industry estimated to be worth between $7bn and…
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What You Have Heard Is True: Carolyn Forché’s courageous memoir
In Nadezhda Mandelstam’s memoir of the brutality she and her husband the poet Osip Mandelstam endured in Stalin’s Russia, she…
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From Miss Trunchbull to Donald Trump: why Matilda is the perfect icon for resistance
A statue of the Roald Dahl character defying the president points to reasons to be hopeful even when it feels as…
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So you want to be a rock’n’roll star: how music shaped Alan Johnson and Mark Kermode
The former home secretary and the film critic are children of different generations, but their music memoirs both impress.
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