In 2011, builders in the Rio de Janeiro docklands uncovered the ruins of the Cais do Valongo, a wharf where, between 1780 and ...

Gardens feature in every genre of Roman literature, from obscene epigrams to dry agricultural treatises, though often in the background or on the margins – as the setting for Cicero’s philosophical ...

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In the opening and title poem of his ninth collection, Ian Duhig recalls finding “a pebble the exact shape of a light bulb”, at which point another “lit … in a thought bubble” above his “dull bulb of ...

The North Pole is the point at the top of our planet where the Earth’s axis of rotation meets the surface. It is not a place. Unlike the South Pole, it is ...

This follow-up to Bookworm (2018), Lucy Mangan’s memoir about the books she read in childhood, chronicles some of the reading that has provided entertainment and solace in her adult life, particularly ...

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 White House and White nationalism, the crises of capitalism and the Green Dollar, Podemos, En Marche! and the Five Star Movement, Black Lives Matter and #MeToo: in reviews or essays, our writers ...

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