US moves to cancel cross-border grants and ban certain types of research – on top of the tariff war and annexation threats – underlie Canada’s push to associate to Erasmus+ and expand Horizon Europe participation. But how quickly can decades of close research links be rerouted? Seher Asaf reports

The Birmingham professor, hotly tipped for this year’s Booker Prize, tells Jack Grove that lots of better academic writers than him are facing redundancy, while Davina Quinlivan praises his shortlisted novel, Black Bag – in which ‘the current decimation of the arts is disrupted by the presence of an enigma’