IndexBullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber review – the myth of capitalist efficiency Is your job one that makes the world a better place? If not, it is probably bullshit, part of a system that is ...

Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography by Claire Harman 503pp, Harper Collins, £25 A lion in his lifetime, at his death in 1894 Robert Louis Stevenson fell from fashion. For the Schlegels in EM Forster's ...

In this new and exclusive short story, the science fiction writer Alastair Reynolds considers the ways in which the pressures of war shape those who fight them Claire Armitstead talks to Helen Oyeyemi ...

Adult Book, by Malcolm Knox (Bloomsbury, £7.99) When respectable Sydney GP John Brand dies suddenly, he leaves behind a widow, two sons and a big secret. Eldest son Davis is a doctor like his father.

Near the end of his life, Isaiah Berlin wrote these words to a correspondent who had asked the great imponderable: "As for the meaning of life, I do not believe that it has any. I do not at all ask ...