Triumphant images of women who climbed to new heights
23 July 2025
Mountaineering Women: Climbing through history tells the stories of more than a dozen female climbers who have conquered the world's greatest peaks
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Read an extract from Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake
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
Rachel Kushner’s Booker-shortlisted Creation Lake is top-notch
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...
Read an extract from The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
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...
Sebastian Faulks: ‘Homo sapiens is a very odd creature’
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
Hawaiian Soul review: An inspiring tale of environmental activism
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
Difficult Times by Adrian Tchaikovsky: An electro band get a weird gig
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
The psychology that explains how Trump's divisive rhetoric won
10 November 2016
How did Donald Trump's nationalist mantra that the US was becoming second-rate take such a strong hold in the American psyche, wonders Chris Simms
Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God
20 April 2016
The Mind Club is a witty, insightful guide to other minds, rounded off with smart thinking about thinking in an age of neuroscience
New twist in the tale of Tutankhamun's club foot
5 October 2011
Last year, evidence emerged that boy king Tutankhamun had a club foot. Now experts aren't so sure
