THE FATE OF MR WALLIAMS highlights a long-standing ...

Do not speak ill of the dead: so runs a familiar injunction, often recalled when it is already too late, and ill has been spoken. And sometimes the dead themselves set a terrible example. Consider the

David Farrier Nature’s Genius Evolution’s lessons for a changing planet 288pp. Canongate. £20. In David Farrier’s latest book, he warns us that humanity is endangering every facet of life on Earth thr

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A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the National ...

There are welcome revivals of Ayckbourn and Stoppard plays, plus a brilliant production of a Western classic