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Women dating in their 50s and 60s is now normal and celebrated. Let's take a moment to appreciate how far we've come The painting "Nameless and Friendless" by Emily Mary Osborn (1857) may have been ...

The Contemporary Poetry and Music Circle was hugely influential in the post-war years. Its legacy is finally being unearthed ...

Prequels often feel unnecessary; they indulge in gratuitous over-explication of things that never needed to be explained. Not so with Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution, a prequel to his Southern Reach ...

The guides at Piuval guesthouse take visitors out on daily jaguar-watching safaris. Credit: Apolline Guillerot-Malick The hot, humid air greets me as I step out of Cuiaba’s airport, in Brazil’s ...

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Bill Cooke is the author of The Blasphemy Depot: A Hundred Years of the Rationalist Press Association and six other works on the history of freethought. He teaches philosophy in Warrington.

Michael Mann is professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles ...

Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities (Oxford University Press) by Cristina Rocha ...