Branching out

What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the TLS

Can stepping into hyperreality enhance your running experience? David Smyth plugs in to find out

So, an extraterrestrial, a robot and an astronaut walk into a bar… sorry, I’m sure you’ve heard that one. Anyway, science-fiction in its past guise was a world of optimism and adventure, the ‘Golden A

Setting the stage Tanya Combrinck discovers how artists build tone and weave emotion into narratives

Over my decades-long writing life, I’ve been a reader, judge and (sometimes) an organiser for many novel-writing competitions, including the Harry Bowling Prize, the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s

Artificial intelligence used to mean something different. Or at least it did to me, back in the time of blocky, beige home computers and bold prognostications about the end of history—the 1990s. Video