When violence is sustained long enough, it undergoes an insidious transformation: it ceases to be an acute aberration and settles into habit. In contemporary Iran,…
Some filmmakers are interested in what happens in the physical world. SaiKiran Sunkoju is fascinated by what happens within the people who inhabit it. For…
Maria Bregman on three evenings of the London Literature Festival 2026 at the Southbank Centre: the Service95 translated fiction showcase, Tice Cin's Safe Spaces and…
The winners of the Creative Future Writers' Award 2026 read their work at the Southbank Centre during the London Literature Festival, 30 October 2026.
Samanta Schweblin, Nelio Biedermann, Gaël Faye and Intan Paramaditha at the Service95 Book Club Translated Fiction Showcase, Southbank Centre, 28 October 2026.
The Victoria and Albert Museum began not as a temple of art for art’s sake but as a government instrument to improve British manufacturing after…
Once a year, Toulouse lets people into the Garonne, and Supertri is the reason. Maria Bregman reports from a triathlon in the historic heart of…
There is a peculiar injustice in the history of science. Robert Hooke – who discovered cells, formulated the law of elasticity, rebuilt London after the…
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to the South African jurist Navanethem Pillay. What the Committee said.
A lily, a broken leg and a museum walking out into a garden: what Manchester's Museum Beyond the Walls says about how knowledge moves from…