Humanities

Scholarship can be a fearsome activity, as Chris Walsh discovered when he set out to investigate the figure of the coward

16 October

Which fairy tale is the greatest of them all? Sally Feldman on enduring themes

12 June

Ignorance of one’s native English means other languages and cultures are a closed book, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

22 May

Philosophers need to follow Socrates’ example and get back among the people, say John Kaag and David O’Hara

20 February

On Halloween, Richard Sugg reveals how early stories of death from paralysing nightmares morphed into tales of vampires

31 October