While fascists protest in UK ports and purvey nonsense and poison online, ever fewer people have the perspective or analytical tools to challenge them, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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The long read: Given the size and age of the universe, it should be full of species with technology far more advanced than our own. But so far there is no trace

At 80, SF author M John Harrison is producing some of his best work. He talks about finding his voice, alien intelligence and the advice from Iain Banks that still spurs him on

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Cave art, with its faceless humanoids and capacity for silliness, seem to know something we now strain to imagine: better ways to spend our time.

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The green anaconda is a colossal snake found in the Amazon rainforest and a central figure in the region’s mythical and cosmological life.

A River Red With Blood brings the Charlie Parker series up to 23 instalments, and the author has also found the time to further his academic career on Leeside

What began as a distraction from grief for Dublin’s anonymous art patron has become an annual event providing exhibition space – and a €10,000 prize – to artists

It’d been a warm, sunny spring afternoon. The grass in the cemetery was green, the roses and lavender in the wreaths fragrant. Iqbal’s funeral had been a quiet affair, all things considered. Our circl...

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