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 ...

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 ...

Public fascination with Adolf Hitler and his court has barely abated over the nearly eighty years since the end of his “Thousand Year Reich”. As Richard J. Evans points out at the start of his new ...

We begin in 1936, with a candle inside a glass “moon-globe”, which Gabriel Dax’s mother lights. It is a ritual important to a fatherless child, “signifying order and calm”. Soon after, the mother, a ...

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 ...

David Peace is the William Faulkner of the M62. Like the great novelist of the American South, he has created a body of work centred on a relatively small ...

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 ...