So Mayer Under Review:Alston Moor. Anne Charnock. Goldsmiths, September 2026.Woman, Wolf, Carbon Capture. Noelle Catharine Allan. Black Lawrence Press, September 2026. It feels strange to proffer c…

National Trust has transformed Sandilands in Lincolnshire into a nature reserve with wetlands and wading pools

Is the price of stability necessarily the loss of freedom? Two possible future worlds are linked in the new novel from the author of Station Eleven

M. John Harrison has long laboured under the unfortunate moniker of being a ‘writer’s writer’. This has always been reviewer code for ‘writer not many people read’. Active since the sixties, first pub...

The French artist has stalked people, posed as a hotel maid to get into rooms, and filmed her mother’s last breath. Has she any regrets? Non! As a major UK show opens, she recalls her career highs

Fire threatens Kalimantan’s rainforests. On the peatland frontlines, a group of local mothers is defending their community

by sci-fi writer Anne Charnock

Rebecca Howard spent two years visiting projects and painting landscapes that feature in West Sussex exhibition

An extremely well preserved fossil feather could reveal why some birds survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid, and others did not.

Being able to identify cloud types is a wonderfully direct way to connect with our physical world.

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I spent a week, mildly glowing, in isolation after radioactive iodine therapy, and caught up on some reading that I'd always meant to do. I

It doesn’t quite fit with the other contemporary fiction on the shelf, but its author, the late Thomas Vinciguerra, introduced me to my husband.

Prof Gustaf Hugelius warns wildfires could accelerate release of methane and carbon as vast regions approach irreversible thresholds

The writer – who was also shortlisted in 2023 – has won the prize for her book When There Are Wolves Again, a speculative work of eco-fiction set in near-future Britain

This stylish biography of the author traces his journey from left to right, and from ‘posh Lima’ to Cricklewood

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I don’t work on an epic scale, though my ambitions run more to epic proportions than I like to admit. ​ It’s a question of…

Three recent novels explore the use of deception by both invaders and the invaded.

Langmead (City of All Seasons) offers up an enchanting Sherlock Holmes pastiche that follows gay detective Havelock Harper and h...

Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost

Economist Prof Mariana Mazzucato says governments must ‘get back their mojo’ and believe they can change the world

Photographer Shane Hynan explores the tension between the central role peat bogs play in Irish life and their wider environmental impact