David Baddiel’s candid memoir, My Family, is mostly about his parents and their “unbounded non-parenting”. I puzzled over the ...

The ideas of the German-Jewish mathematician Emmy Noether (not least the four-part theorem that bears her name) laid the ...

The Ming doctor Li Shizhen’s pharmacopoeia is widely known in China, and the man himself has appeared on postage stamps and ...

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“If it keeps on rainin’”, sings Robert Plant on Led Zeppelin’s 1971 track, “levee’s gonna break.” The song is a cover of a 1929 recording by Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie, inspired by the Great ...

“Only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mind”, W. B. Yeats wrote in 1927; “sex and the dead.” Even if he’d said “to a serious poet’s mind”, this would have been one of ...

The White House and White nationalism, the crises of capitalism and the Green Dollar, Podemos, En Marche! and the Five Star Movement, Black Lives Matter and #MeToo: in reviews or essays, our writers ...