TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Is DNA destiny?’ – Matthew Cobb on engineering humanity.

Examining poets

J. H. Prynne and Geoffrey Hill’s clash over ‘hazards in rubric’ By Gabriel Rolfe

Metalheads and quilters

‘Aside from writing, what is your chief distraction, obsession or side-hustle?’ Writers at the Hay Festival reveal their private passions

The traitors

Cold War double agents, their lives and motives By Richard Davenport-Hines

‘I shall feel again, as soon as I dare’

Addictive anthologies of letters and diaries By Dinah Birch