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 ...

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 ...

The Sámi are descendants of the nomadic people who have inhabited northern Scandinavia for centuries. Today they reside in Sápmi, which encompasses stretches of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and ...

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 ...

In 1786, Sir William Jones, a British philologist and judge, made the remarkable discovery that the ancient Indian language Sanskrit resembled Latin and Greek, “bearing to both of them a stronger ...

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 ...

In the far reaches of our solar system, over 10 billion miles from the small blue dot we call home, the Pioneer probes are soaring into the oblivion of deep space. However, these cosmic messages in a ...

In his 1976 debut volume, Richard Dawkins pioneered the concept of the “selfish gene” – the idea that genes propagate themselves through whatever mechanisms necessary, thus explaining phenomena such ...