How to go from molecular soil biologist to Atlantic adventurer? Ask Lucy Gilliam—eco-navigator with an all female crew. By Herbert Wright.

A famous human rights lawyer explains how new and sweeping types of legislation can strip freedoms we take for granted. By Paul Copeland.

On the beauty and heartache of Egypt — and its present quarrel with itself and history. By Yahia Lababidi. Photographs by Constance Marten.

An irrepressible untamed spirit, artist, English minstrel, and legendary Libertine has been crucified in London . . . in a church. By Herbert Wright.

A brilliant and richly 'camp' art show inspires our writer to navigate the void between the wild and culture of death and dying. By Gene Threndyle.

'Imagine an embedded neural implant operating in the brain itself. In other words, maybe we could hack the animal.' By Herbert Wright.

Remembering a visionary who pointed the way to reinhabit nature on the street and on the roof. By Sean Cosgrove.

We're collecting them, new ones and classics, to be published soon.

Stéphane Charbonnier and the Charlie Hebdo team — standing up for the creative spirit of dissent.

Doing an alive deadly dance in the karst landscape of Andalucía. A poem and reading by Mark Goodwin.