Annual global population growth is now just over a third of the peak level reached in the 1960s and the rate is falling fast.

According to the American academic William Kelleher Storey, Rhodes was able to go a long way towards realising his vision ...

On an autumn day in 1680, the 50-year-old Charles II charged Samuel Pepys with an unusual task. Over two three-hour sittings, one on a Sunday evening, the next the following Tuesday morning, the king ...

Incredible but far from unusual is the story of Hercules’s maternal grandfather. Taken captive defending Kyiv from the ...

Book Reviews by subject: Vladimir Nabokov & Literary life & Literature and Literary Criticism May 2017 Issue Mark Dunbar Stings Like a Butterfly The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End ...

Nigel Biggar retired a few months ago from the Regius Professorship of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford. He is a notable figure in the world of moral philosophy, not only because of his ...

Keith Houston’s history of emojis reveals that explicit images as well as political provocations, flagrant brand advertisements and other undesirables fall foul of something called the Unicode ...

Tolerance does not come naturally to humankind. For most of recorded history, what people believed about the natural world, about government and society or about the moral code was laid down by ...

Thomas W Hodgkinson: There Was No Sorcerer - Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops by Tim Robey ...

Julian Baggini: #MeatToo - How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance ...

Morten Høi Jensen: Paranoid Humanoid - Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka by Karolina Watroba; Kafka: Making of an Icon by Ritchie Robertson (ed); Diaries by Franz Kafka (Translated from German ...

Shehan Karunatilaka’s freewheeling debut, Chinaman, won a clutch of awards in 2010. In it, a cynical, drink-soaked narrator tries to track down a possibly dead cricketer in a Sri Lanka riven by civil ...