The future, an abstract concept perpetually just beyond our grasp, isn’t being shaped by the collective imagination of humanity. Instead, a compelling argument can be made that its contours are being drawn by a remarkably homogenous and numerically small …
Authors Kate Atkinson, Kathy Reichs and Jo Nesbo will be among those appearing at this year's Bloody Scotland crime-writing festival in Stirling. Rebus creator Sir Ian Rankin is the first guest programmer for the festival, which runs in the city from …
Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. In financial circles, the investment strategy many people pursue during chaotic times is known as the “flight to safety.” That means dumping risky assets …
In Russia, nobody knows what’s gay enough to get you in trouble. In a country where queerness has been legally equated to terrorism, the line between what is acceptable and what is not has blurred. “It is quite difficult to understand what constitutes LGBT …
Was Jane Austen the first writer to show how it really feels to be a middle-aged woman? Before Austen, literature’s iconic perimenopausal woman was the Wife of Bath in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, who regales the medieval pilgrims with a scandalous account …
After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a lot of Ukrainians who would normally have used Russian as their first language started instead to speak only in Ukrainian. It was part of a cultural shift, particularly in areas close to Russia. …
The passing of celebrated Kenyan writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on 28 May 2025 marks the end of a remarkable period in African literary history – the fabulous decades in the second half of the 20th century when African writers came to command the …
Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ukrainian writers have found themselves grappling with questions not just of survival, but of voice, purpose, and audience. Can one write fiction in the midst of war? Can creativity endure …
Across three decades of democracy, South Africa has – like many places undergoing complex and uneven social change – seen an outpouring of remarkable nonfiction. The Interpreters is a new book that collects the work of 37 authors, all of it writing (plus …
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