"Couch to 5k" for reading week 3. includes: an interview with Emma Gannon! a celebration of reading plays! and: how to memorise a poem! (if you want to)

Food in Bronze Age Greece

A brushtail possum was found peering out among the toy kangaroos and dingoes in a retail store in Hobart’s airport, delighting staff and customers

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

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Young people at Latitude explain how hard it is for their generation to get a part-time job.

Groupthink, copycat commissioning and ‘too many middle-class Henriettas’ — experts reveal what caused the biggest literary scandal in years