
From doomy prophecies to epic dystopias, we are suckers for end times
26 February 2025
Despite facing real existential threats like climate change, we remain too fascinated by the end of the world, argues a new book
26 February 2025
Despite facing real existential threats like climate change, we remain too fascinated by the end of the world, argues a new book
25 April 2018
Margaret Mead’s 1920s solo trip to live among people in Samoa was just the start of a boundary-breaking and myth-demolishing career
24 January 2018
In The Postgenomic Condition, Jenny Reardon lays bare what went wrong with the most promising medicine of the millennium – and greed is only part of her story
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