If the best-known glories of ancient Egypt are the pyramids, the mummies and the gold of Tutankhamun, then ancient ...

In recent decades, critical thinking about the “liveliness” of the natural world has gained momentum. Anthropologists and ...

Editors and writers join Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark to talk through the week's issue. Subscribe for free via iTunes, Spotify and other podcast platforms ...

The Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita: ancient Indian texts that challenge Western categories, yet influenced the course of ...

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According to conventional wisdom, religions are systems of belief. Religious people are “believers”. Christians believe that Jesus rose from the dead; Muslims believe that Mohammed was the final ...

In the Western intellectual tradition Niccolò Machiavelli initiated what would later be known as the Enlightenment project. His pessimistic characterization of human nature (“ungrateful, changeable, ...

Cars, from the Ford Model T to computers on wheels ...

I have always been fascinated by stories of the astronauts who came back from the Moon. Having seen the Earth suspended in space, a blue marble surrounded by darkness, some found it hard to function ...

We’re listening to voices. They last for three books. First book: it’s a man, en route to see his mother; he heads into the country, becomes decrepit, and fails. Then it’s another man, on a mission to ...

‘From the pale, yellow and peeled branches of willow / And alder the globes of water grow and fall / In ripenings of light’ – Howard Nemerov ...