Stewart Lee is an award-winning comedian, writer, director and filmmaker. His new stand-up show, “Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf ...

The Odyssey is a Christopher Nolan movie. Like Dunkirk, it shows exhausted soldiers on a beach, desperate to get home. Like ...

Tse explores similar themes in City Like Water (also translated by Bruce), the first and longest piece in her 2020 short ...

Female longing is having a cultural moment and midlife women are taking the limelight. Confounding societal expectations that older women should fade into sexual invisibility or conform to a selfless ...

A scene from the Jack in the Green festivities in Hastings. © Alamy As I descend into the Old Town of Hastings, locals drape luscious garlands and leafy bunting from ...

David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA-winning filmmaker. He is professor of public history at the University of Manchester. His most recent television series ...

Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism, is often criticised for using religious identity and nationalist sentiment to assert the cultural supremacy of the Hindu majority in India, undermining the secular ...

In the early 1970s, I was a pupil at a Protestant primary school in working-class west Belfast. Considering the mayhem that was raging nearby – the rioting, bombings and shootings – the teachers did a ...

Sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov’s prescient genius produced a series of classic stories, collected together as I, Robot, in which intelligent machines are confronted with existential issues. However, even ...

This piece accompanies Marcus Chown’s feature on the discovery of cosmic background radiation, from the Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. Perhaps the most famous accidental discovery of all is ...

God: An Anatomy (Pan Macmillan) by Francesca Stavrakopoulou. We don’t know his real name. In early inscriptions it appears as Yhw, Yhwh, or simply Yh; but we don’t know how it was spoken. He has come ...

On paper, Buddhism looks pretty good. It has a philosophical subtlety married to a stated devotion to tolerance that makes it stand out amongst the world religions as uniquely not awful. Even ...