11 October 2024
In the opening to Rachel Kushner's Booker-shortlisted novel Creation Lake, the latest pick for the ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club, we meet undercover operative Sadie Smith as she secretly reads the emails of an eco-activist group
26 September 2024
For an undercover operative, Sadie Smith takes unnecessary risks as she infiltrates an eco-activist group. Why? And where do the Neanderthals fit into Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner's Booker-shortlisted climate fiction novel? Emily H. Wilson loved finding...
28 August 2024
Where do morals come from? In Animals, Robots, Gods, anthropologist Webb Keane argues imagination and differing senses of the world are key to discerning right from wrong
29 September 2023
This intriguing extract is taken from The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks, the latest pick for our ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club. It sees a billionaire entrepreneur recruiting a scientist for his new project, which will have major implications for the human...
29 September 2023
The award-winning novelist Sebastian Faulks on how he came to set his new novel The Seventh Son – the latest pick for our ·ï»Ë²ÊƱ Book Club – a little way into the future
8 February 2023
In Marvel's Midnight Suns, you are in charge of a team of superheroes who fight villains but also hang out. Who wouldn't want to go fishing with Spider-Man or play video games with Wolverine, asks Jacob Aron
27 July 2022
In Emmi Itäranta's The Moonday Letters, humans have adapted to live off-world. But central to this genre-crashing thrill ride is a reminder that hope is essential
1 December 2021
An uplifting film tells the story of how George Jarrett Helm Jr became a leading voice in a movement for environmental and Indigenous rights in Hawaii
26 May 2021
Some people seem to possess unlimited get-up-and-go, while others can barely muster enough drive to leave the couch. Here's what science tells us about motivation – and how to cultivate it
16 December 2020
Failing fringe electro band Cosmic String have got a strange new gig, writes winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award Adrian Tchaikovsky in his new short story Difficult Times
