Idealisation can serve a purpose—even in fields like physics

Hill, a great poet, passed away one year ago. Goodman talks to Sameer Rahim about coming to terms with that—and about her own extraordinary artistic output

Whitehead’s boldest stroke is to make the historical underground railroad a literal secret railway line

In our summer fiction supplement, DJ Taylor argues that angry voices of discontent rarely make it into the mainstream, while in a short story Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen follows...

This compelling book tells the story of the last six years of the Syrian conflict through the voices of anti-Assad activists

This quick-fire response to the rise of Donald Trump could become a rallying point for the disaffected and angry

There is nothing useful in asking a disparate and diverse set of people to solve a problem they have little or no control over

This novel, a story about a footballer coming to terms with being gay, is gripping, well-written and moving

Some contrasting views

We are seeing not “the radicalisation of Islam but the Islamisation of radicalism”