Renowned sociologist Eric Klinenberg provides the ultimate overview of how different countries fared during the pandemic and whyThe virus had the potential to kill, but the real threat ...
I Love Russia takes us to places that non-Russians have never seen and brings us voices we have never heard. It is Elena Kostyuchenko’s courageous attempt to document Russia as experienced by...
Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic ...
Once demonised and still largely illegal, psychedelic drugs are now officially a 'breakthrough therapy', used to treat depression, trauma and addiction and to enhance well-being. But as neuropsycho...
'Magisterial' - Guardian'Outstanding' - Ian KershawVladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States...
It is a myth that either of the World Wars liberated women.The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It mar...
"WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2019THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An angry and important work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed t...
It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life – a large portion of it quite d...
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move back to the States for a few years, to let his kids experience life in another country, to give his wife the chance to sho...