Climate, Politics and Procreation: Alison Bas...

‘Information in the early modern world could move no faster than the bodies that carried it,’ John Gallagher wrote recently in the LRB. For a horse and rider, that was just under fifteen kilometres per hour. Yet postal systems, as pioneered by the enterprising Tassis family, were ...  عرض المزيد

When Peter Mandelson was a minister in Gordon Brown’s government he passed confidential advice to Jeffrey Epstein, who had recently been convicted of procuring a child for prostitution. This is among the many extraordinary details of Mandelson’s relationship with Epstein revealed ...  عرض المزيد

Une majorité de Français se dit aujourd'hui très inquiets du changement climatique. Mais la conversation sur le changement climatique est parfois difficile ou caricaturale face à l'ampleur du problème et sa complexité. Comment parler du climat de manière utile et efficace dans ...

Canicules, sécheresse, montée des eaux : les évènements climatiques extrêmes deviennent plus fréquents et vont se multiplier dans les prochaines années. Depuis juin 2022, Le Monde a consacré une série d'enquêtes et de reportages au sujet de l'adaptation au changement climatiqu ...

This week, Ben Hutchinson on the making of Franz Kafka, a century after the writer's death; and an interview with Roz Dineen about her vision of climate catastrophe and societal collapse.'Kafka: Making of an icon', Weston Library, Bodleian, Oxford, until October 27Accompanying bo ...  عرض المزيد

This week on the Penguin Podcast, Isy Suttie is joined by award-winning author and professor, Sarah Bakewell.

Sarah joins us to discuss her latest work of nonfiction, Humanly Possible: seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope