Naomi Klein: 'We are seeing the beginnings of the era of climate barbarism'
The No Logo author talks about solutions to the climate crisis, Greta Thunberg, birth strikes and how she finds hope• Read an extract from her new book, On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal...
View Article'We have a once-in-century chance': Naomi Klein on how we can fight the...
In this extract from her latest book On Fire, the No Logo author looks at why capitalism and politics have got in the way of addressing the climate crisis• Interview with Naomi Klein: ‘We are seeing...
View ArticleTake a leaf out of her book: woodland poet’s search for inspiration in the trees
Tiffany Francis-Baker looks back on her six months as a Forestry Commission writer in residence – and urges us to take care of our woodlandsFor centuries, forests have been the backdrop for fairytales,...
View ArticleSurfacing by Kathleen Jamie review – profound reflections
Jamie links the life-changing trials of middle age with the natural world and lost communities in these subtle, wonderful essaysKathleen Jamie’s third essay collection, Surfacing, is a quieter, gentler...
View ArticleThe 100 best books of the 21st century
Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000Read an interview with the author of our No 1 bookRead Ali Smith...
View ArticleVaclav Smil: ‘Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that’
The scientist and author on his latest book – an epic, multidisciplinary analysis of growth – and why humanity’s endless expansion must stop.Vaclav Smil is a distinguished professor emeritus in the...
View ArticleThe Body by Bill Bryson review – a directory of wonders
Extraordinary stories about the heart, lungs, genitals ... plus some anger and life advice – all delivered in the inimitable Bryson styleThe cartilage in your joints is smoother than glass, and has a...
View ArticleThis Life and Outgrowing God review – heaven, atheism and what gives life...
Our lives are finite – but do we keep that in mind and spend our time well? The latest attack on religion by Richard Dawkins and Martin Hägglund’s argument for ‘secular faith’Years ago, the magazine US...
View ArticleMilk by Mark Kurlansky review – a 10,000-year history
From creation myths to recipes, this is a wonderfully wide-ranging studyHumans are the only mammals that consume milk after weaning. Normally the enzyme (lactase) needed to digest the sugar in milk...
View ArticleLife stories: books about a planet in peril
From disappearing mushrooms to the secret life of trees, Amitav Ghosh explores the almost incomprehensible realities of our changing worldHow do we make sense of the Earth when it seems to be turning...
View ArticleWhy mathematicians just can’t quit their blackboards
Photographer Jessica Wynne captures the peculiar devotion of academics to working out their problems with chalkAnother year, another wave of students trampling across autumn leaves, making their way to...
View ArticleFood Or War by Julian Cribb review – a stark choice and a bleak outlook
The science writer’s warnings of global hunger are compelling and his solutions are intriguing, if naiveJulian Cribb is a persistent man. The veteran Australian science writer specialises in “threats...
View ArticleKathleen Jamie: 'Nature writing has been colonised by white men'
The genre’s current boom is dominated by middle-class males, she says, but the author of Surfacing prefers to concentrate on ‘deep time’Kathleen Jamie recently spent “valuable minutes” of her life...
View ArticleIndistractable by Nir Eyal review – letting tech off the hook
The author of Hooked, a bible of addictive tech design, now offers advice on how not to be distracted. But is his self-help argument convincing?In The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley points out that...
View ArticleTop 10 books about the night
From Shakespeare and Brontë to ‘nightwalking’ guides, nature writer Tiffany Francis-Baker sheds some light on her favourite books about the darkWe are all drawn to the night. It’s a hidden world full...
View ArticleHuman Compatible by Stuart Russell review – AI and our future
Creating machines smarter than us could be the biggest event in human history – and the lastHere’s a question scientists might ask more often: what if we succeed? That is, how will the world change if...
View ArticleEdison review: Edmund Morris biography gets things back to front
The final work from the author of the Theodore Roosevelt trilogy ends up, like its subject, a bit too clever for its own goodSome biographers start with death – in medio mors, perhaps, rather than the...
View ArticleUltrarunning, prison, surviving Aids ... the best tales of endurance
From Shackleton in the Antarctic to Edmund White on the Aids crisis, Emily Chappell rounds up stories of survival“I can’t go on, I’ll go on,” is the weary conclusion of Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable,...
View ArticleThe Great Flood by Edward Platt review – a wade through waterlogged Britain
From sunken cities to coastal catastrophe … the everyday misery of the climate crisisEdward Platt travels around Britain in search of the kind of apocalyptic deluge that increasingly swamps the...
View ArticleSmashing the patriarchy: why there's nothing natural about male supremacy
Psychologists such as Steven Pinker and Jordan Peterson argue patriarchal society is the ‘natural order’, but it is a relatively new development, writes Gaia VinceFathers are happier, less stressed and...
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