Stories make things real

“As movers and the moved both know”, John Updike noted, “books are heavy freight ... They make us think twice about changing addresses.” Books: A manifesto, or, How to build a library begins with the

We’re great at buying thoughtful presents for everyone else, so why not ourselves? From showing yourself some care to celebrating small wins, self-gifting can lift your mood in surprisingly meaningful ways, discovers Sharon Parsons

Authorial intelligence versus artificial intelligence: an ongoing palaver. We would rather think as little as we can about the possibilities of both; but it seems irresponsible to ignore the intellect

“Where are we to begin?”, Virginia Woolf asks in her essay “How to Read a Book”. “How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasures from what we read?

Animal magic and a camera changed everything for my girl Paula McDonald, 39, Ardrossan, North Ayrshire

My fresher’s year at Edinburgh University offered a few rude awakenings. The first: learning the university had run out of self-catered accommodation. The next was that the uni’s solution was to have