How the bicycle set women free
The populous and multifarious history of women’s cycling
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Anthony Horowitz: “I couldn’t possibly support the Conservative Party now – it makes me feel queasy”
The bestselling novelist on upending genre fiction, why writers must be hopeful and his shift to the left.
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When statues fall
What our long history of toppling monuments tells us about our divisive relationship with the past
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Reviewed in short: New books by Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Terán, Karl Deisseroth, Lionel Shriver and Felice Fallon
The Pay Off by Leibbrandt and de Terán, Connections: A Story of Human Feeling by Deisseroth, Should We Stay or Should We…
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Christopher Ricks: “Criticism is being good at noticing things”
The scholar and literary critic on embarrassment, Bob Dylan and being irritable.
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“Cat Person” was a story with a clear villain. But life is always more complicated than that
Real relationships rarely fit into neat narratives about power dynamics and abuse. Perhaps fiction shouldn’t either.
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How TikTok conquered the world
A new book charts the unparalleled growth of the Chinese social media app.
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Equality and the elites
How political ideas such as “levelling up” draw on centuries of meritocratic thinking.
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