Belanglo State Forest is two hours north of my home in Canberra – barely a drive by Aussie standards, just a quick detour off the Hume Highway on the way ...

The late Derek Parfit imagined the following choice. We could carefully steward our planet’s bounties, investing in infrastructure and renewable energy while leaving resources for future generations.

Veroniki Dalakoura (b.1952) first came to the notice of her translator, John Taylor, after their mutual friend Elias Petropoulos alerted him to her work.

Darkness everywhere. Night pervades, then dies.Now kerb sweepers, bread vans and early trafficrumble by my window-side bed while rain-musicfizzles on slate roofs as dawn pours inside.An alarm squawks ...

Toby Lichtig chats to Sam Leith about formative literature at Jewish Book Week and David Horspool meets Sue Prideaux, winner of this year’s Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize ...

Tom Stoppard once said that The Real Thing should ideally be seen only once, because of the number of tricks it plays on the audience. The tricks are essential, of course, a well-oiled machine ...

Stepping out of his apartment block in Paris’s chic sixteenth arrondissement, the filmmaker Robert Bristol narrowly avoids being hit by a falling man.

“If you see me on the scaffolding of a house under construction … I’m Mario Fagiolo. If, instead, you see me belly up in the field, tickling the clouds with a blade of grass between my teeth, make no ...

In 2016 a poster advertisement for the Brexit Leave campaign informed Britons that there were 76 million Turks and showed their muddy footprints marching towards a British passport. The country is a ...

It is December 25, 1975. Maria Gabriela Llansol writes in her diary of meditation, chickens, her dog, of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Daybreak and the journal kept by the religious historian Mircea Eliade, ...

“The plot always thickens in winter / All roads lead right to it”, says a voice in Maria Stepanova’s book-length poem Holy Winter 20/21. For the Russian writer and intellectual, the winter in question ...

Holding on to our humanity in an age of social robots 256pp. St Martin’s Press. £22.99 (US $27). “We are ourselves creating our own successors; we are daily adding to the beauty and delicacy of their ...