His title is shrewdly chosen. ‘Genius’ is the word we humans use to assert our mental superiority. Nature’s genius is its ...

After producing two superb collections of short stories, Sweet Home and Dance Move, the Belfast-based writer Wendy Erskine has a lot to live up to in The Benefactors, her debut novel. The good news is ...

As Dorothy Rowe’s classic study My Dearest Enemy, My Dangerous Friend explains, sibling relationships – invariably intense, often fraught – are among the most underexamined of familial connections.

‘Dad,’ my son said in early 2022. ‘You can’t write a book about boys and men without mentioning Andrew Tate.’ I responded with the question millions of parents have probably asked: ‘Who is Andrew Tate ...

Sarah Dunant’s latest work of historical fiction, The Marchesa, centres on the life of Isabella d’Este, marchesa of Mantua (1474–1539). Isabella married Francesco Gonzaga, the marchese, at the age of ...

It was 1997 and Apple was kicking off a campaign to rebrand itself with a new television advert. ‘Here’s to the crazy ones … The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones ...

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