How game theory can help you to be a better parentSmall humans competing for resources in your home? Mathematics can help, as Mike Doherty explains
A campus for the School of Hard KnocksCordelia Strube’s latest novel is ’quietly elegiac and despairing’
Why the Easter Rising changed everything for IrelandThe Easter Rising is a foundational moment in modern Irish history and a reminder that by the end of 1916 there was no going back to the pre-WWI world
In praise of the Yukon Gold potatoOne man is on a mission to make sure the world knows the the Hollywood status of this Canadian potato.
At ground zero of assisted deathNino Sekopet, an extraordinary end-of-life counsellor, on the questions he most often faces
William Shakespeare: A man out of timeHow Shakespeare’s plays—400 years later—have remained the best explorations of our own political and cultural fights
Duffy’s going back to work. Awkward.A specialist in dysfunctional workplaces on what awaits Duffy when he heads back to the office: ‘Can we all pretend that didn’t happen?’
Greece’s Marxist former finance minister speaksYanis Varoufakis’s assessment of what’s wrong with the Eurozone
My lover the convict: The allure of incarcerated menDiane Schoemperlen’s tortuous six-year relationship with a convicted killer