I once exalted in the extraordinary. But as I’ve learned from Virginia Woolf, indelible beauty is also found in the everyday ...

Can colour be understood geometrically? If so, what’s the best way to map it out, capturing the variables of hue, brightness and saturation? These questions have deep implications for art, physics and ...

A hero or a murderer? Stalin’s legacy is still a contentious issue in his birthplace, seven decades after his death ...

With a class of college students and inmates, teaching philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation ...

In this layered portrait, an artist reflects on the complex reality of living with the distressing voice in her head ...

Ascend steep cliffs to discover Ethiopia’s ancient churches carved into rock, still serving as places of worship today ...

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Many hope that AI will discover ethical truths. But as Gödel shows, deciding what is right will always be our burden ...

is a novelist and literary translator based near Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of The Jubilee Cycle, a science-fiction trilogy set in a dystopian future Tokyo, and the translator of A Man (2020), a ...

In 1998, Indonesia was deep in crisis. With the country reeling from soaring inflation, mass unemployment and mounting unrest, tensions erupted into protests and riots that brought an end to the three ...