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How French modernists from Proust to Mallarmé were alarmed and inspired by the voracious dynamism of the newspaper world ...

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What distinguishes fiction from nonfiction? The answer to this perennial question relies on how we understand reality itself ...

All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history ...

What drives us to create zoos and natural history museums – is it a curiosity about the world, or a need to dominate it?

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A British Museum curator explains why making sense of archeological ruins is like finding a single brick in a huge soil heap ...

We share and feel the same pain’: the mothers looking for their children who disappeared in Mexico en route to the US ...