Brief letters: Suspicious neighbours | Museum of the year | Ofsted | One word for the Tories | Roman dodecahedron
January 2024
The Guardian view on radio plays: an underrated cultural resource that must be preserved
Editorial: Their status has fallen since the great days of Under Milk Wood or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, but we still need audio dramas
December 2023
Ultimate summer reads
The ultimate summer reading list: 15 sci-fi and fantasy novels to escape into
From Douglas Adams and Liu Cixin to Terry Pratchett and Claire G Coleman, your beach reads are sorted courtesy of Guardian Australia’s staff and critics
November 2023
Elon Musk unveils Grok, an AI chatbot with a ‘rebellious streak’
Boss of X said tech being tested is inspired by Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
September 2023
Crossword blog
Crossword roundup: can you solve these vintage puzzles tackled by Douglas Adams and AJ Ayer?
Revealed: how Hitchhiker’s Guide author predicted rise of ebooks 30 years ago
August 2023
In brief: 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams; Alchemy; Mercury Pictures Presents – review
A fascinating glimpse into the mind of the humorist and sci-fi writer; a rip-roaring historical thriller; and a subversive novel set in golden-age Hollywood
April 2023
The Q&A
Douglas Stuart: ‘What did I want to be when I was growing up? Heterosexual’
The author on self-loathing, losing his hair at 21, and finding a happy ending with his husband
February 2022
Notebook
Why not re-erect the statue of Edward Colston and topple it once a year?
Tim Adams
A report surveying what people wanted to do with the slave trader’s memorial contains a few unusual suggestions
March 2021
Brief letters
Flying the flag for rightwing Britain
Douglas Adams' note to self reveals author found writing torture
September 2020
Top 10s
Top 10 books about space travel
The Italian astronaut chooses her favourite extraterrestrial reading, taking in fiction by Italo Calvino and Stanisław Lem alongside reportage and history
November 2019
Top 10s
From Alice in Wonderland to the Hitchhiker's Guide: top 10 books about mathematics
From Lewis Carroll to Douglas Adams and even Dostoevsky, the imaginative possibilities of numbers have animated some dazzling fiction
October 2019
Brief letters
Hitchhiker’s guide to fixing global heating
Brief letters: Treating flu | Doorstep politics | Douglas Adams | Tea or dinner?
August 2019
The networker
Douglas Adams was right – knowledge without understanding is meaningless
John Naughton
Supercomputers are solving complicated problems but we often don’t know how
October 2018
Top 10s
Robin Ince's top 10 books about the human condition
From Douglas Adams to Oliver Sacks, the standup comedian reveals some of the writers that have helped him try to work out what makes us tick
February 2018
Don't panic! The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is back
It’s the biggest thing to happen to the universe since the Vogons blew up Earth. Our writer grabs a babelfish and goes behind the scenes as the space satire returns
October 2017
Top 10s
Top 10 imaginary drugs in fiction
From the mind-bending potion in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to Don DeLillo’s cure for the fear of death, these are some of the most potent hits in literature
Don't panic! Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in line for radio reboot
Show to return to BBC to mark 40th anniversary of its debut and will be adapted from Eoin Colfer’s And Another Thing...
Google’s translation headphones are here, and they’re going to start a war
Nigel Kendall
Douglas Adams knew what he was doing – if we find out what other people are really saying it could be disastrous, says freelance journalist Nigel Kendall
