Free money for everyone: will universal basic income ever happen?
The division of rewards between capital and labour seems to be growing ever-more skewed.
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The Gender Agenda: is it possible to raise children free of sexist stereotypes?
A new book charts the many subtle ways boys and girls are treated differently.
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The academisation of the Demon Headmaster
After 15 years out of the education system, the children’s series returns – and the Tories are in power. Author Gillian…
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Lost in Austen: why does the new £10 note quote one of her characters instead?
The quotation used – about a love of reading – is spoken by a character who only pretends to like…
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Ocean Vuong’s poetry brims with precise, surreal and erotic imagery
Paul Batchelor reviews his Night Sky with Exit Wounds, plus new works from Adam O’Riordan and Colette Bryce.
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Signal Failure reveals what it’s like to walk the path of HS2
Author Tom Jeffreys trekked from London to Birmingham, and found no easy answers.
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The Idiot is animated by the pleasures and frustrations of different forms of knowledge
Elif Batuman’s novel follows an 18-year-old aspiring writer through her first year at Harvard.
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Diving for pearls: Philip Hoare’s book is a meditation on the sea
RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR sometimes feels like drifting, from Cromarty to Cape Cod to Porthmadog.
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