Isha Badoniya on Erik Hoel

What is the value of silver and gold in the middle of the ocean?

I imagined the scroll’s spread—it motivated me to abandon archival research in the British Library and travel to Bikaner...

The queer coding in magazines like Bachelor wasn’t just meant to wink at queer readers...

Scratched on the wall of a mine is the very first attempt at something we use every day: the alphabet...

Sun of the Soil is a form of artivism that aims to engage not only local communities through street performance...

A flute made from the wing bone of a griffon vulture was found…

The hand stencils on cave walls in Western Spain have been dated to about 65,000 years ago...

There is a growing and mutual bottom-up fashion exchange between China and Africa...

For Dosso, the burgeoning foliage of the countryside outside the coastal town that can be glimpsed through the trees is as much of a subject as the human action...

A peculiar idiosyncrasy marked the appearance of the word ‘utopia’ in Chinese...

Are academic political philosophers responsible for the persistence of this ridiculous theory?

Small-eyed Henry VIII, spread curiously flat on the rectangle, vast and gem-studded. Thomas More, Anne Boleyn, they’re all here...

Tintoretto needed no more than the outlines of the figures—no more than their idea—for them to come to life...

You stay quiet and we will set the course for growth, success and China's path to the top. It's a tough, unambiguous contract...

They cover the first bubble in 1720, the Latin American mining stocks bubble in the 1820s, the UK railway stocks bubble of the 1840s, the Australian land bubble of 1886-93...

Time will tell exactly how serious the pandemic’s disruption of weather-data gathering and forecasting will be...

Among Juwayeyi’s most important contributions is the argument that the Maravi state predated the expansion of Indian Ocean trade into the region...

The era’s greatest promoter of astronomy was Jai Singh II, the 18th-century raja of Jaipur...

I had been watching the growth of open source software and I had this concept of a free encyclopedia...

The likely economic consequences of the pandemic—unemployment, insecurity, soaring public debt and perhaps inflation—will probably feed a second wave of populism...

Proust would advise us to refuse the tyranny of algorithms...

Patriarchy’s Paradoxical Persistence: Berfrois Interviews Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider

Our work began with a question: Why do we sacrifice the pleasures of human connection in order to claim our place as “one of the boys” or as a “good” woman?

‘The Man Who Could Work Miracles’ by H. G. Wells

It is doubtful whether the gift was innate. For my own part, I think it came to him suddenly. Indeed, until he was thirty he was a sceptic, and did not believe in miraculous powers.

It’s as if the natural cold of the night / is dispersed by the fog that fills the park / as you, a friend, and I walk and sit and talk...

Natalie Lawrence: Global Greed and the Gluttonous Dodo

The dodo was not always fat. Nobody alive is able to say for sure what a dodo was really like: the last one had died by the end of the 17th Century...