BBC Scotland newsreader left ‘terrified’ after man accused of stalking ‘visited her home in early hours’

A PENSIONER has gone on trial today accused of stalking a BBC Scotland broadcast journalist for almost four years. Robert ...

In Anne of Green Gables, I found the kindred spirits and queer prophets I needed

In the latest edition of Emerging Queer Voices, writer Julia Smeaton considers the impact of Lucy Maud Montgomery's novels on ...
The Debrief

A Medieval Poem Misled Historians About the Black Death for Centuries—Scholars Now Reveal the “Spider’s Web” of Plague Myths

A new study in the Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies shows that a widely accepted belief about the Black Death’s rapid spread from Central Asia to the Mediterranean is not based on records or ...
WSKG

New poetry stresses that our stories are more precious and urgent than ever

Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective ...
The ObserverOpinion

We fear getting caught more than we fear not learning

As is widely known, fear has a way of “flattening” the imagination, and when the fear of punishment overshadows the desire to ...
New Statesman

Jeanette Winterson’s thousand and one yawns

Seated on his mother’s lap in a 1933 photograph, the infant John Updike already looks like himself, with one cocked eyebrow ...