The publication in 1888 of the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío’s collection Azul changed the way the Spanish language was written ...

It is a courageous soul who would take on the challenge of writing a Life (even a partial Life) of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

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In 1945, Time magazine ran a photograph captioned: “Philosopher Sartre. Women Swooned”. Sarah Bakewell is frank in describing Jean-Paul Sartre’s “fishy lips and other disconcerting features” in her ...

British shoppers spend millions of pounds on champagne over Christmas. Although alcohol sales in the UK are declining over the long term, sales of sparkling wine are increasing: the 2015 sales ...

Darwin’s finches and Schrödinger’s cat, Newtonian alchemy and quantum entanglement, heatwaves and icecaps, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing and Larry Page: reviewing the latest books, our critics discuss the ...

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

The Times Literary Supplement has been published since 1902 and remains the only weekly standalone literary journal in the world. Readers of the TLS are mature (average age 60), affluent (average ...

The American author Elaine Kraf (1946–2013), who was also a painter and special-needs educator, was interested in those who deviate from social norms. Her debut, I Am Clarence (1969), features a ...

Lynne Tillman’s American Genius, a Comedy follows a woman over the course of a day during her stay in an artist’s retreat. The woman doesn’t use the term “artist’s retreat”, but she does call the ...