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Uprooted: On the Trail of the Green Man Nina Lyon Faber & Faber, 287 pp, 15.99 £ I recently looked into the face of a moth for the first time. [...]

We know that money doesn't buy happiness. But the search for happiness is certainly enriching a lot of people. The feel-good industry is flourishing. Sales of self-help books and CDs […]

Sicily: Culture and Conquest British Museum, London WC1 When a gun was fired a hundred metres or so from the Sicilian piazza where we were eating, my reaction was to [...]

discovers some Homeric virtues Odysseus and his crew drink sweet wine, and their adventures have a single form: ordeal, escape, sacrifice, feast and then the glukon oinon that restores the [...]

PROMISE OF A DREAM: REMEMBERING THE SIXTIES Sheila Rowbotham Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 262pp, £18.99 £15.20 at www.newstatesman.co.uk(+15% p&p) Having been too old to experience the radical fever of [...]

Neuroscience has made some startling discoveries about how the brain works and where our personalities come from. Susan Greenfield explains What exactly do we know about how the mind works? [...]

Labour MPs began plotting to remove Jeremy Corbyn from his position as leader even before he held it. They have not stopped since. From the outset, his most implacable critics [...]

When it comes to grand infrastructure projects, Italy rarely seems in a hurry. In the north, a plan to save Venice by means of a gigantic, multibillion-euro flood barrier system […]

Head of State Andrew Marr Fourth Estate, 369pp, 18.99 £ Andrew Marr is a marvel. In January 2013 he suffered a debilitating stroke while overdoing it on a rowing machine. [...]

Military confrontation has been averted. But, Marrack Goulding argues, the UN must beef up its approach or risk losing credibility Kofi Annan's expedition to Baghdad on 'sacred duty' was a [...]

Sometimes you don't notice a line in the sand until you trip over it. What is most shocking about the outcry over Tesco's 'workfare' job advert, which offered the exciting [...]

Jane Eyre BBC1 'You are an intelligent, thinking woman,' Rochester tells Jane Eyre when he reprimands her for asking permission to peruse the books in his library at Thornfield Hall. [...]

'White or red?' must be three of the most uninspiring words ever to be uttered. If the wine is so bad that it only qualifies for description as generic alcohol, [...]

On Sunday night BBC2 got halfway through its four-part history of television news. At nearly four hours, if it had stuck solely to Britain, Breaking the News could have aspired [...]