Photography is not only an artistic medium but also a way of knowing.
Jerry L. Thompson | Aug 10, 2023
Notes on interstellar hitchhikers and the origins of life.
Roberto Battiston | Aug 3, 2023
Philosopher Michael Marder explores the problematic figure of “talking trees," from the sacred grove of Dodona in ancient Greece, to the vegetalized human beings in Dante’s “Inferno.”
Michael Marder | Jul 25, 2023
Jorge Luis Borges was deeply inspired by the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, whose prints of imaginary prisons and palaces captured the Argentinian author's imagination.
Victor Plahte Tschudi | Jul 20, 2023
An excerpt from Eva Meijer's book “Animal Languages,” an exploration of how animals speak to each other and to humans.
Eva Meijer | Jul 17, 2023
An excerpt from veteran game designer Greg Costikyan's book "Uncertainty in Games."
Greg Costikyan | Jul 11, 2023
The science of viruses, born out of the 20th century's deadliest pandemic, launched medical thinking in a dramatically new direction, saving countless lives in the decades to come.
Richard Conniff | Jul 6, 2023
"As you can see, I haven’t stopped being a painter. Now I draw on chance."
Trevor Stark | Jun 29, 2023
An excerpt from “Memory,” a primer on human memory, its workings, feats, and flaws, by two leading psychological researchers.
Fergus Craik and Larry Jacoby | Jun 26, 2023
An excerpt from "Thousands of Mirrors," cult critic Ian Penman's kaleidoscopic study of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Ian Penman | Jun 22, 2023
