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Humans have long wrestled with their conscience about killing and eating animals. The “meat paradox” (the conflict between people’s preference for meat and their concern for animals) may have inspired cave paintings from 37,000 years ago. Since then, many leading thinkers have eschewed meat, including Pythagoras, Leonardo da Vinci, Mary…

The writers, philosophers and politicians who have raided Milton’s epic poem for inspiration

Author’s compassion and progressive vision of family stand out in incredible saga charting the acrimonious relationship between two families

Blaine’s working-class Queensland family represented everything Michael Shelley hated about Australia. The only problem was his children were Blaines

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In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

Shake and Stir’s stage version finds plenty of modern parallels to Mary Shelley’s tale of creator and creation – especially as the lines between human and machine continue to blur

Taylor Swift has cultivated a global brand that might seem incompatible with the darkness, abjection and monstrosity of gothic fiction. But, beneath the friendship bracelets and sequins, her global Eras Tour makes extensive use of gothic elements to engage her audience and articulate her feminist politics.

Film actor who starred in The Shining and made seven films with Robert Altman