We can slow down the effects of climate change, if we want to

Robert Alter's new translation of the Hebrew Bible draws out the literariness of the text. He speaks to Prospect about why he decided to do a new edition, the act of translation, and what the Bible...

Bita Ghezelayagh's transporting exhibition at Leighton House is worth an hour of your time

A new gallery at the heart of the British Museum gloriously explodes our preconceptions

The novelist on why if he wants to write about a plutocratic kleptocracy, he doesn't need to leave America

The Ancient philosopher has much to teach us today

The Nobel Prize-winning British author invented post-colonial literature

We're in a crisis and Facebook isn't helping

From Reagan to Zuckerberg, the enduring relevance of a 14th-century Arab historian

A new documentary about the show’s creator Garry Shandling shows how his humour was motored by darkness