When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...

into the wriggling earth for a rainbow with an honest spade. Dannie Abse, “Letter to Alex Comfort” (1977) From 1943, in the midst of the Second World War, a group of poets and musicians began to ...

Matthew D. Taylor is a senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore, and the author of "The Violent Take It By Force: The Christian Movement That Is ...

Tony Gilland is Science and Society Director at the Institute of Ideas and is editor of Science: Can we trust the experts (Hodder & Stoughton, June 2002) ...

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

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 ...

Not long ago, religion seemed to be in terminal decline. But, as Paul Seabright points out in his impressive new book, it is now going from strength to strength. Local cults or “ethno-religions” may ...

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 ...