The Contemporary Poetry and Music Circle was hugely influential in the post-war years. Its legacy is finally being unearthed ...

When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...

Matthew D. Taylor is a senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore, and the author of "The Violent Take It By Force: The Christian Movement That Is ...

Tony Gilland is Science and Society Director at the Institute of Ideas and is editor of Science: Can we trust the experts (Hodder & Stoughton, June 2002) ...

Women dating in their 50s and 60s is now normal and celebrated. Let's take a moment to appreciate how far we've come The painting "Nameless and Friendless" by Emily Mary Osborn (1857) may have been ...

Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities (Oxford University Press) by Cristina Rocha ...

Prequels often feel unnecessary; they indulge in gratuitous over-explication of things that never needed to be explained. Not so with Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution, a prequel to his Southern Reach ...

Not long ago, religion seemed to be in terminal decline. But, as Paul Seabright points out in his impressive new book, it is now going from strength to strength. Local cults or “ethno-religions” may ...