For some scholars today, the claims prove that empires are obvious and natural structures for human beings to inhabit, or ...

How Manet’s subtly radical works broke the fourth wall, confronting the viewer with paintings that stared back at them ...

is a philosopher and writer, who is interested in everything to do with the human search for meaning. He lives in Hamburg, Germany.

The UK filmmaker Daniel McKee is known for videos in which he arranges items from around the world into vibrant, flipbook-style animations. In his latest work, he draws from signs around the world to ...

is a historian of science at Olivet Nazarene University in Illinois and the director of the university honours programme. He is the author of Making Stars Physical: The Astronomy of Sir John Herschel ...

Death comes in many forms. There’s the death of a vast multicellular system – which is to say, the variety that tends to preoccupy us most. On a smaller scale, there’s the death of a single cell, ...