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

Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi lead the conversation: Patrick Wilcken brings us the real Brazil, a country at breaking point; Francesca Wade considers the radical interior designs and desires of the ...

Erin E. Templeton is a Professor of English at Converse University, South Carolina. She serves on the Board of Directors of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and is editing Tender Is the Night for ...

Saraid de Silva’s novel follows three Sri Lankan women – the stunt double Annie, her mother, Sithara, and her grandmother Josephina – whose stories, taking us from 1950s Singapore to contemporary ...

Last year in St Louis, during a fiery speech by the president of the NAACP Cornell William Brooks, a group of black agitators in their early twenties stood up before a gathering of older Civil Rights ...

The title story that opens Jessie Greengrass’s debut An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It returns to the mid-nineteenth century, when the last of the great auks (a ...

Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi lead the conversation– Thomas Meaney on death (and what to do with the remains) in the West; Professor Amy Knight on how Putin keeps getting away with murder; Edmund ...

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 ...

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.

German lyric poetry is one of the great, unsung glories of post-war European literature. Not since the Expressionist era, perhaps not since the Baroque, has there been such a flowering of German verse ...