Iris Murdoch, the formidable Irish and British novelist and philosopher, died in 1999. Since then, the Murdoch industry has ...

Love Goes NorthJulie McNeill, Luath, £8.99A NEW collection by the Scottish poet Julie McNeill, Love Goes North, is well worth a read for both budding poets and that once fabled and much sought after ...

Artificial intelligence can write you a passable love poem and some people even have romantic feelings towards it. But is the feeling mutual?

For years, poetry was said to be fading into the background — confined to slim volumes on dusty shelves or to academic circles far removed from everyday life. Yet across Europe, and increasingly in ...

Failed ideologies often enter a “zombie state”, becoming a set of hollow rituals and rhetoric, cut off from reality. But ...

In an era where algorithms increasingly shape what we see, read and share, the question of who gets to be heard has taken on ...

This past year, there has been a lessening of the multi-generational gloom that has hung over British churches since the ...

The Bengal Reader is an expansive anthology of Bengali writing in translation to be published in one volume. Ranging from the ...

As the idiosyncratic, laconic Hungarian composer approaches his 100th birthday, we tall to Pierre-Laurent Aimard about his decades-long relationship with György Kurtág, on his unique playfulness and ...

Apophenia is the mind’s tendency to find meaning in randomness. It shapes creativity, emotion, and misunderstanding, ...

"I’ve always found it a particular privilege to take care of the roses here," Ms. Altman said of her decades tending the rose ...

"There are more legitimate reasons for honoring our President, Donald J Trump, but let’s not be distracted by the ceremony of legislation." ...