America’s first sport
Had it not been for the civil war, Americans might still be playing cricket, not baseball
Had it not been for the civil war, Americans might still be playing cricket, not baseball
The career of music’s most well-travelled songwriter, whose latest album is inspired by flamenco
These publicity-savvy artists are channelling their creativity into protest
The battle between the competing demands of nature and history is being played out on Orford Ness, a remote spit of land on Britain’s eastern coastline. Martin Fletcher met the protagonists
Unlike in Britain and America, food is still central to working life in South-East Asia. A delicious – and daunting – prospect for an impeccably polite foreign correspondent
While Disney’s “Alice Through the Looking Glass” may not be wholly faithful to the original, its iconography is instantly recognisable. This is a credit not only to Lewis Carroll himself, but also to the many artists (and one in particular) who have over the years turned his words into images
Data suggest that couples who have sons are more likely to stay together than those who don't. In this podcast, Emily Bobrow discusses whether fathers find it harder to parent daughters and whether having sons makes women more likely to stay in unhappy marriages
Donald Trump’s fans don’t care if he stretches the truth – they admire him for it. From the days of the Wild West, American culture has celebrated boasters and hoaxers
Given its rich history and maze-like streets, Cairo should be a flâneur’s paradise. It is, but only once you get off the pavement
Reykjavik, 1918. A young man embarks on a journey of sexual self-discovery in the celluloid glow of the city’s new cinemas. An eerie new tale from Sjón, Iceland’s most famous novelist
