New research suggests Neanderthals were far more sophisticated than was once thought

 In a series of books Christopher Guilluy has developed the increasingly influential concept of a “France périphérique”, says David Sexton

From plate tectonics to the clay encompassing the Tube — our planet defines us more than we realise, says David Williams

Dream Sequence, incisively well-written and alluringly readable is, among other things, a really good London novel, says David Sexton

It's been a tumultuous few years

The latest collection of T S Eliot’s letters is wonderfully insightful — but is it a little too exhaustive?

Michel Houellebecq has followed up Submission with a sorrowful look at France today