Lucy Rock

At 80, Annie Proulx is as acute (and prickly) as ever. As her latest book, Barkskins, is published, Lucy Rock visits her woodland home to talk trees, Trump – and why she’s bored with navel-gazing novels

America’s national parks are facing multiple threats, despite being central to the frontier nation’s sense of itself, says Lucy Rock

Jonathan Rauch, author of The Happiness Curve, was relieved to find an explanation for his gloom – academics say adulthood happiness is U-shaped

In a recording in 2020, the actor made a case for giving ‘human beings true agency over their bodies at the end of life’

E-bikes transform a four-day cycling tour of the South Tyrol from an endurance test to an enjoyable jaunt with enough puff left over for bonding chats amid the spectacular scenery