Thea Lenarduzzi on the cultural history of gesture and body language; What is Chaucer to us today? When did he become known as the "Father of English poetry", and what did he get up to when he was not writing rude and memorable poetry? Julia Boffey explains; the Stonewall uprising in New York is remembered as a pivotal moment in LGBTQ rights – fifty years on, Hugh Ryan revisits the history
Books
Dictionary of Gestures: Expressive comportments and movements in use around the world by François Caradec
Silent History: Body language and nonverbal identity, 1860–1914, by Peter K. Andersson
The Stonewall Riots: A documentary history, edited by Marc Stein
The Stonewall Reader, edited by the New York Public Library
Pride: Photographs after Stonewall by Fred W. McDarrah
Love and Resistance: Out of the closet into the Stonewall era, edited by Jason Baumann
Zadie Smith, in conversation
Half glitzy, half dowdy
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: the inaugural Gabriel García Márquez lecture
Narratives of sexual assault
How Macron went wrong
‘American Standard’, a new poem by Paul Muldoon
Everything points north
Reddit's new religions
Egos and experiments
Finer points of murder
Icons familiar and unfamiliar
Mary Beard's 'Introduction to the Odyssey' – a bonus episode
Highlights from 2018 – a bonus episode
Arts of the Year 2018
Ode to the orca
Who on earth was William Gilbert?
Our problem with cows
The best books of 2018
Is it accurate to call Donald Trump a fascist?
WW1: Remembering / forgetting
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