Literature
Literature

Bicycle Day

Ethnopharmacologist Dennis McKenna delves into the events that led to the first synthesis of lysergic acid diethylamide in an introduction to Brian Blomerth’s latest work about Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann

Literature
Literature

Translating: The White Book

Man Booker International Prize-winner Deborah Smith demonstrates the trials and triumphs of translating with an extract from The White Book, the new novel from Korean writer (and co-recipient of the prize) Han Kang

Literature
Literature

Remembering Albert Camus

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of ‘The Outsider’, we pay tribute to the radical writer and his influential thoughts on the meaning of life – or rather, the positive lack of it