Preteens are parroting influencer speak, stealing and demanding anti-ageing products. Experts say the pressure to fit in is intense – and the beauty stores aren’t helping

The bestselling author’s sixth novel is far from perfect, but this journey into the underworld is delivered with heretical glee

The institution really ought to reflect. It had an ‘outsized role in developing racial pseudo-sciences’ – the consequences of which still haunt us today, says Chris Osuh, a community affairs correspon...

Nonfiction award goes to Rachel Clarke’s ‘beautiful and compassionate’ The Story of a Heart, about a lifesaving transplant seen from all sides Dutch debut novelist Yael van der Wouden has won this year’s Women’s prize for fiction, while British doctor Rachel Clarke took home the nonfiction award. Van der Wouden’s The Safekeep and Clarke’s The Story of a Heart, which made last year’s Booker and Baillie Gifford prize shortlists respectively, were announced as the winners on Thursday evening, with each author awarded £30,000. Continue reading...