The Burnt Sugar author remembers summer 2007, when her grandmother arrived to help her set up home – and teach her some life lessons• Read other authors on their memorable urban summersShe arrives with a small suitcase and several jute bags filled with…
性教育は妊娠・避妊だけじゃない。「性犯罪から身を守る方法」何歳からどうやって教える？
＜家庭で性の知識を身につけることが必要だと、性教育サイト「命育」代表の宮原由紀氏。子どもたちはネットを性の教科書にしてしまっているし、性教育は防犯にもつながるからだ。年齢ごとに必要な知識と伝え方とは？＞ 「性教育を学校に丸投げしてはいけない」と、性教育サイト「命育」を主宰する宮原由紀氏は言う。 「学習指導要領」（平成29・30年改訂）によると、学校で教える性教育は、小学校4年生で思春期の体の変化を学び、5年生では男女に分かれて、体の悩みや生理用品など、より丁寧な指導を行うというもの。 学校は性教育に…
Junglist by Two Fingas and James T Kirk review – when jungle was massive
A stream-of-consciousness novel capturing the 1990s jungle music scene over one weekend marks a defining moment in British multiculturalismRalph Ellison, in his 1952 classic Invisible Man, may have best captured a sense of blackness not as a racial abs…
My journey to Albania in search of Europe’s Muslim heritage
In this adapted extract from his new book, Minarets in the Mountains, Tharik Hussain discovers a historic centre of Islamic learning in the country’s scenic southern hillsThe silhouette of Gjirokastër began to emerge in the distance. This city is in th…
‘Gender is a kind of haunting’: Jennifer Mills explores the queer potential of the ghost story in The Airways
Miles Franklin-shortlisted author’s new novel follows a ghost who can inhabit different bodies in a reflective take on the genreIt’s hardly a spoiler to reveal that the chief protagonist of Jennifer Mills’s latest novel dies. It is fleeting, fragmented…
How the ‘art of the insane’ inspired the surrealists – and was twisted by the Nazis
The author of an acclaimed new book tells how Hitler used works by psychiatric patients in his culture warOn a winter’s day in 1898, a stocky young man with a handlebar moustache was hurrying along the banks of a canal in Hamburg, north Germany. Franz …
Amia Srinivasan: ‘Sex as a subject isn’t weird. It’s very, very serious’
With her debut book, The Right to Sex, a 36-year-old Oxford don is dazzling everyone from Vogue to Prospect magazine. She discusses porn, gender dysphoria – and why her students are no snowflakesIf All Souls is one of the most inordinately beautiful co…
Why public schoolboys like me and Boris Johnson aren’t fit to run our country
Our elite schools foster emotional austerity and fierce clique loyalty. Here a privately educated writer of the prime minister’s generation reveals the lasting damage public schools doScroll down for a Q&A with Richard BeardI had a feeling I couldn…
Martin Amis: ‘Style isn’t something you apply later’
The novelist on making Philip Larkin his fictional father, why writing has become a battle, and his new work about race in the USMartin Amis, 71, is the author of 15 novels, two story collections and seven works of nonfiction, including a memoir, Exper…
‘Thanks for your help, Sticky’: Michael Rosen on learning to walk again after Covid
His traumatic experience with coronavirus inspired the author’s new children’s book – about the ‘friend’ he leaned onIt was the tweet that let the world know Michael Rosen was back on form and on the mend. “My wheelchair days are over. Stick now. Stick…