There are many museums of natural history, of archaeology, of decorative and fine arts. There are outdoor museums that show ...

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

As in Sally Rooney’s previous novels, the main characters in Intermezzo fall in love quickly, tidily and passionately. They meet, their outfits are described, they exchange clipped dialogue and are ...

In the early 2000s I enrolled in a master’s course in computer science. Among my fellow students it was common to share jokes about bugs and bytes, or about the 10 types of people in the world – those ...

Craig Brown’s royal doorstopper is less about the life of Elizabeth II than about her effect on other people, particularly on the British, who were her subjects until 1981 and afterwards sometimes ...

This week, Toby Lichtig goes to see the latest Roald Dahl adaptations, junior critic in tow and Dinah Birch celebrates the enduring power of Ebenezer Scrooge.

What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? Always question, never be afraid to change when the answer is “change”. To what extent, in your view, is writing a political act? To a very large extent.