On a train recently, I had the good fortune of sitting next to two who had just finished their GCSEs and were on their way to Milo’s party in Bath. Milo, I discovered, was having the party at his ...

Adults play on water slide set up in Bristol, May 2014. Credit: Alamy It’s late summer and the afternoon sun is beating off Shoreditch’s sheer glass facades and gum-littered pavements. My colleagues ...

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Dan McCarthy is a writer and editor with a background in behavioural insights, history and American studies ...

Sam Mills is the author of The Quiddity of Will Self (Corsair), and Sovereign Grand Quiddity Inspector General of the Will Self Club.

Fluke: Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters (John Murray) by Brian Klaas ...

Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think (Princeton University Press) by Helen De Cruz What is wonder? To try to answer the question requires you to perform the mental act that you are ...

As Ernest Hemingway famously claimed, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” In his latest novel, James, Percival Everett reimagines Twain’s ...

A boy and his mother travel in an auto-rickshaw in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Credit: Jody Ray It’s the start of the rainy season in Sierra Leone, the west African country known for its beautiful beaches ...

Many of us suffer from the cognitive bias known as the “just world fallacy”. The sense that the world should be a fair place can easily slide into the belief that it is a fair place and that people ...