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From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their ...

The mysterious lady is something of a rarity in the global archaeological record, which contains very few female skeletons ...

Poems from centuries ago can stand in dialogue with painters speaking to their contemporaries, and calligraphy serves as a ...

This anthology attempts to imagine and understand the fraught relationship between humans and nonhumans across various media and through the ages.

The city - sliced, diced and served with a dash of sauce ...

Without literature we cannot understand the past, do not understand the present and will fail to navigate the future. Yet it is treated like ...

Unsuitable reveals the power of dress to shape the lives of those who wear it – and to challenge, provoke and bring people ...

The Durham team appeared in the first of the initial seven rounds, winning convincingly against the University of Warwick. Their score of 265 was the highest of all 14 teams in the group rounds and ...

Lego bricks, ranked among the world's most popular toys, have become collectors' items, gaining value over time. Both the ...

Lego bricks, ranked among the world's most popular toys, have become collectors' items, gaining value over time. This trend ...

And finally, we must remember the human cost of these lies. The blood libel has never been an abstract theory; it has always ...