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 ...

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The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) pursued two main themes in his work, one now familiar, even commonplace in modernity, the other still under-appreciated, often ignored. The ...

Angel Kelly is an innocent abroad. To be specific, he is on a slaver bound for Brazil at the close of the eighteenth century, thinking to put his inheritance to fine use by founding a utopian ...

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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 ...

The Danish author Solvej Balle came to fame with According to the Law (1993; 1996 in English): four linked stories about “the raw isolation of humankind”. She then retreated to an isolation of her own ...