New Generation Thinkers

Tariq Ali, Sarah Jilani, Sangeeta Datta and Chandak Sengoopta and Rana Mitter discuss Ray.

Professor Des Fitzgerald explores new thinking on the health impact of city life.

Is that strong, inescapable image of 19th-century city streets in our heads the right one?

Damon Galgut discusses his Booker Prize-winning novel, The Promise, with Anne McElvoy

Anne McElvoy and guests look at the writing of the German Romantic writer and musician.

Matthew Sweet, Joan Passey, Roger Luckhurst and Sam George look at Varney the Vampire

How the speculative and the mythical have shaped and continue to shape Black art.

Why the forbidden fruit is not an apple.

Alexandra Reza on the early women surrealist poets and writers who shaped the movement.

Dafydd Mills Daniel investigates the story behind an iconic image of Bob Dylan.

Why are mermaids an ideal tool for describing things that our society does not understand?

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough delves into the history of runes, the ancient alphabet.

Abdulrazak Gurnah, Emily Shuckburgh and Joan Passey join Rana Mitter at Hay Festival.

Matthew Sweet is joined by Jingan Young, Benjamin Halligan and David McGillivray.

John Gallagher and guests dig deep into the significance of soil.

Florence Hazrat looks at the history of punctuation marks (such as brackets) and emojis.

Fariha Shaikh reads accounts from Thomas de Quincey (1821) to Timothy Mo and Amitav Ghosh.

Julia Hartley asks why we call Alexander the Great.

Vid Simoniti considers eco-art from Olafur Eliasson to videos by Bo Zheng.

Adjoa Osei celebrates Elsie Houston, who mixed Afro-Brazilian folk with European opera.

Jake Subryan Richards reads the letter sent by a captured man who arrived in Cuba in 1854.

Lauren Working on what fashion reveals about life for C16 English settlers in America.

Sarah Jilani on the lessons about power in films by Ousmane Sembene and Souleymane Cissé.

Mirela Ivanova on the countries claiming to be the birthplace of the Cyrillic script.