The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional ...

Thomas More and Utopia. ... On other authors, he doesn’t fare too much better, classing, for instance, the great Saint Thomas More as an enemy because he once wrote a book titled Utopia.

In Search of Utopia at M-Museum, Leuven and Utopia & More at the University Library, Leuven are both on show until 17th January 2017. Portrait of Thomas More, c1527 by Hans Holbein the Younger ...

Yet Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, written in 1516, hasn’t been all that widely available. Sure, you can find it on the internet if you look hard enough, but this marks the first time that you can ...

In the nearly-500 years since its publication, Thomas More’s Utopia has influenced everything from the thinking of Gandhi to the tech giants of Silicon Valley, writes Tom Hodgkinson.

Thomas More's classic work of speculative fiction 'Utopia' has entered the culture so deeply that the name of his fictional island is the accepted term for our hopes and dreams of a better society ...

By J.T. IT WAS meant as a joke, of sorts. Even the title of Thomas More’s “Utopia”, which was published 500 years ago this month, was composed with the author's tongue in his cheek: a Greek ...

One detail from Sir Thomas More’s Utopia stuck with me after reading it long ago, and it’s come to mind with some regularity over the past few months: on More’s imaginary island, anyone who aspired to ...