“The way societies support families is critical to how women experience motherhood,” journalist Leonard asserts in this by turns...

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Join us for an evening of readings and discussion with the shortlisted authors of The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award, chaired by author and former winner, Zadie Smith.

The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S.

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In Maggie Su’s funny debut novel, a Frankenstein-like monster turns on his flailing creator.

Jack Torrance is an emerging writer who’s just landed a sweet gig. In exchange for doing some routine maintenance on the historic Overlook Hotel over the winter months, Jack, his wife Wendy, and th…

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During the siege of Leningrad, botanists in charge of an irreplaceable seed collection had to protect it from fire, rodents – and hunger. By Simon Parkin

This fascinating history of Nikolai Vavilov and the staff at his plant institute tells a story of almost unbelievable self-sacrifice while under siege during the second world war Is there any human endeavour as heroic or under-appreciated as plant…

We fell in love with the power and speed that fossil fuels brought us. But the price being paid in California, and around the world, has become too high

We were joined by John Vaillant, journalist and author of the Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction for his book Fire Weather, an account of the 2016 inferno that engulfed the oil town of Fort McMurra...

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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION • FINALIST FOR THE PEN/GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION...