We have become reluctant to accept death as an integral part of life. Perhaps coronavirus will give us a more realistic attitude to mortality

Pop music is dependent on repetition, fleeting fashions and youthful idealism—but has an immediacy like no other art form

With comedians coming under pressure to only perform ideologically pure material, can comedy and satire survive?

The unreliable narrator as autobiographer

Schooling underpinned by critical thinking is the bedrock of civilisation. It could save us from today’s infantilised discourse