A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work ...

All our laws and rules to protect coral reefs now stand in the way of radical action to save them from heat death ...

is the author of the novels Old Border Road (2010) and Mysterium (2018). She lives in Seattle and New York City. Pedestrian: a word fitted to the most drab, tedious and monotonous moments of life. We ...

is the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning and professor of public policy at the Price School, University of Southern California. Her latest book is The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of ...

As Hannah Arendt and her husband Heinrich Blücher waited in Montauban, France in the summer of 1940 to receive emergency exit papers they did not give into anxiety or despair. They found bicycles and ...

A documentary on the patient labour of building a home away from home and the courage it takes to open oneself to new bonds ...

is a professor of philosophy at the University of Portland in Oregon. He is the author of the Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Hume on Morality (2000). In the novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886), ...

The Sun rises every day. Water boils at 100°C. Apples fall to the ground. We live in a world in which objects behave the same given the same circumstances. We can imagine living in a different world: ...

A slight shift in Cleopatra’s beauty, and the Roman Empire unravels. You miss your train, and an unexpected encounter changes the course of your life. A butterfly alights from a tree in Michoacán, ...

Created to accompany an exhibition at the Computer History Museum in California, this nifty explainer from the video essayist Grant Sanderson (aka 3Blue1Brown) helps to demystify how large language ...

What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old ...

Is seeking an explanation for life’s deepest mysteries a worthy pursuit? Many scientists and theologians would say yes. Zen Buddhists practising in China from the 9th to 13th centuries CE, however, ...