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

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 ...

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 ...

Under capitalism, the argument goes, it’s every man for himself. Through the relentless pursuit of self-interest, everyone benefits, as if an invisible hand were guiding each of us toward the common ...

is political philosopher at the University of California, Davis. He is currently working on his fifth book, called The Unbearable Resilience of Illiberalism. He lives in Sacramento. But to understand ...

In rare interviews, Russians speak candidly about their lives in the presence of war – animated to protect their identities ...

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

In a town park in Portugal, prizes dangle just out of reach up a greasy pole. How will the local teens manage to get them?

In the events series Letters Live, performers read notable letters – old and new, original and written by others – in front of a live audience. In this video, as part of the Letters Live event at ...

is a German-born historian of science and magic who runs the Forbidden Histories website. His first book Psychical Research and the Formation of Modern Psychology is forthcoming. He lives in the UK.

Starting in 1969, and for several years afterwards, in church basements and community centre kitchens in cities and towns around the United States, thousands of kids sat around a table every school ...

‘Being 97 has been an interesting experience.’ By the time of his death, the US philosopher Herbert Fingarette (1921-2018) had lived what most would consider a full and meaningful life. His marriage ...