When it comes to the modern history of Islamic art, the story of Musil's "discovery" of Qusayr ‘Amra epitomizes the difference between objects as they exist and knowledge about them.
Shahzad Bashir | Aug 9
Iofan’s career is a precise reflection of all the compromises that architects must make with power.
Deyan Sudjic | Aug 4
Historian Peter Baldwin explores the evolution of the state's role in crime and punishment over 3,000 years.
Peter Baldwin | Jul 15
A poetic, geographic, and botanical journey of perfume discovery.
Jean-Claude Ellena | Jul 12
Emily West, communication scholar and author of “Buy Now,” offers a cautionary tale of bigness in today’s digital economy.
The Editors | Jun 13
Two experts examine the arguments and data for and against the polarizing practice.
Jaclyn Schildkraut and Amanda B. Nickerson | Jun 9
The story of how society, ignorant of medical research, made a stigma out of something our bodies do quite naturally: not conform to a sexual binary.
Kathryn Bond Stockton | Jun 8
An excerpt from Ria Brodell's book "Butch Heroes," which sheds light on the lives of people who didn't conform to gender norms, from the 15th through the 20th centuries.
Ria Brodell | Jun 2
In praise of truly interdisciplinary thinking.
Graham Pullin | May 25
An excerpt from "Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births."
Michelle Millar Fisher & Amber Winick | Apr 28
