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

It is misleading to include sculpture in a list of Baudelaire’s dislikes, as Seth Whidden does in his review of the Œuvres complètes (September 6). This commonly held prejudice is based on his Salon ...

The relationship between the world of books and the internet has always been more than a little tricky. It took another turn – a serious downturn, many would say – last week. On September 4 the US ...

Uranium is among the heaviest naturally occurring elements in the periodic table, and as the source material for the atomic bomb and nuclear power, its importance in human affairs is clear. Many ...

Sir,—Every nursery will endorse the praise bestowed upon the books of Beatrix Potter. It is all the more exasperating, therefore, that for the last two or three years not one has been obtainable.

It is not yet dawn, and Clover Stroud is on the Ridgeway in Oxfordshire, checking the horizon, as she likes to, “just quickly, for giants … a giant would be able to step across the whole plain in one ...

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.

With Stig Abell and Lucy Dallas: Raymond Tallis on the ongoing threat to the NHS; Bee Wilson on descriptions of pregnancy and childbirth; and Marjorie Perloff on seeing O. J. Simpson as Othello.

Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi lead the conversation: why eat meat?; how political was Shakespeare, and does it matter?; the ethics of dust at the Houses of Parliament; a report from Taksim Square, as ...

PAUL REITTER – Karl Kraus – The Last Days of Mankind; Translated by Fred Bridgham and Edward Timms. SARA HOUSTON – Nadine George-Graves, editor – The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater. ROBERT ...