The US’s bankruptcy laws are grounded in a revolutionary idea: to allow failed Americans the chance to brush themselves off ...

There are many museums of natural history, of archaeology, of decorative and fine arts. There are outdoor museums that show ...

Koch’s bacillus – the cause of tuberculosis – was identified in 1882, earning the microbiologist Robert Koch the Nobel prize ...

As in Sally Rooney’s previous novels, the main characters in Intermezzo fall in love quickly, tidily and passionately. They meet, their outfits are described, they exchange clipped dialogue and are ...

“Lisbon is Portugal. Beyond Lisbon there is nothing”, asserts João de Ega, a character in Eça de Queiroz’s The Maias (1888). These days students in Europe’s westernmost nation are required to read the ...

The Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita: ancient Indian texts that challenge Western categories, yet influenced the course of ...

I have been in something of a Twitter storm over the past few days, all because of an argument about the ethnic diversity of Roman Britain (sounds harmless enough you think, well . . . just see). I ...

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) pursued two main themes in his work, one now familiar, even commonplace in modernity, the other still under-appreciated, often ignored. The ...

Alan Jenkins considers great films adapted from literature that prove the book isn't always better ...

In the early 2000s I enrolled in a master’s course in computer science. Among my fellow students it was common to share jokes about bugs and bytes, or about the 10 types of people in the world – those ...

Ann Hallamore Caesar is Professor Emerita in Italian Literature at the University of Warwick, and co-author of Modern Italian Literature, 2007 ...