A lush translation of this late-discovered lesbian poet added to the legacy of Sappho, but there was a trickster at work ...

is the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning and professor of public policy at the Price School, University of Southern California. Her latest book is The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of ...

is the author of the novels Old Border Road (2010) and Mysterium (2018). She lives in Seattle and New York City. Pedestrian: a word fitted to the most drab, tedious and monotonous moments of life. We ...

As Hannah Arendt and her husband Heinrich Blücher waited in Montauban, France in the summer of 1940 to receive emergency exit papers they did not give into anxiety or despair. They found bicycles and ...

Under capitalism, the argument goes, it’s every man for himself. Through the relentless pursuit of self-interest, everyone benefits, as if an invisible hand were guiding each of us toward the common ...

Many people believe that chemicals, particularly the man-made ones, are highly dangerous. After all, more than 80,000 chemicals have been synthesised for commercial use in the United States, and many ...

is political philosopher at the University of California, Davis. He is currently working on his fifth book, called The Unbearable Resilience of Illiberalism. He lives in Sacramento. But to understand ...

In rare interviews, Russians speak candidly about their lives in the presence of war – animated to protect their identities ...

A documentary on the patient labour of building a home away from home and the courage it takes to open oneself to new bonds ...

In a town park in Portugal, prizes dangle just out of reach up a greasy pole. How will the local teens manage to get them?

A slight shift in Cleopatra’s beauty, and the Roman Empire unravels. You miss your train, and an unexpected encounter changes the course of your life. A butterfly alights from a tree in Michoacán, ...

is a sociologist and the debate editor of openDemocracy Russia. She was born in St Petersburg and lives in Berlin, and is working on a book about perceptions of love in Russia and in the West. In 1996 ...