This creekside, neoclassical hotel sits in the heart of Dubai’s newest cultural hub
How to spot a bestseller
In today’s saturated literary market, Dubai still has opportunities for budding authors – they just need the right representation, says Luigi Bonomi
Can you teach writing?
Author, teacher and translator Greg Mosse on pouring creativity into a “story-shaped vessel”
“It feels like people come out in awe at the sheer feat of it”
As Invisible Cities opens at Brisbane Festival, playwright Lolita Chakrabarti discusses adapting Italo Calvino’s seminal 1974 novel
How historically important is the planet?
Lewis Dartnell on how understanding the ground beneath our feet is key to understanding the world
Conquering the desert
What does it mean to cross a land most consider uninhabitable? These days, the allure is less about conquering uncharted territory – and more about finding oneself
Is Aladdin Arabic?
Paulo Lemos Horta on why it doesn’t matter if Disney’s new Aladdin isn’t authentically Middle Eastern – because it never was in the first place
Five minutes with… Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi
The director of the Sharjah Biennial on this year's international cohort
Five minutes with Martin Parr
Photographer Martin Parr began his career in Manchester in the early 1970s, regularly returning to explore its habits. A major new exhibition brings together a 40-year selection of his world-renowned images of the English city