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Inside the 1972 trial that pitted Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis against New York’s most unrelenting paparazzo, Ron Galella. … Continue readingJackie Onassis’ Trial Against Paparazzo Ron Galella Revisited in a New Book
A hard thinker to pigeonhole, Taylor has long been a mainstay of Canada’s social-democratic left; he helped found the New Democratic Party, … Continue readingHow the Philosopher Charles Taylor Would Heal the Ills of Modernity
Dutch painter Piet Mondrian’s life story isn’t widely known and few of us would be able to identify him from a photograph. … Continue readingMondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
To paraphrase the title of the 1983 book by French philosopher Paul Veynes, Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths? … Continue readingDid People Ever Stop Believing In The Greek Gods?
Lula, a new biography of Brazil’s current third-term president, describes the tension on the morning of April 7, 2018. … Continue readingBecoming Lula
The Indian government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. One scholar thinks that would be a loss.
… Continue readingShould India Speak a Single Language?
Though there had been 600 years of dramatic change before 1750, these changes did not increase the standard of living of ordinary citizen of England. … Continue readingReckoning With Growth
The Science Museum in Britain holds numerous items associated with the Nobel Prize-winning mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose. … Continue readingThe Needy Genius Who Understood the Cosmos
Leon Vlieger at The Inquisitive Biologist: This is the fifth instalment in what can unofficially be dubbed the 25 Discoveries series by palaeontologist and geologist Donald R. Prothero. After four
Kaveh Akbar was balancing on his toes. It was the first thing I noticed about him, despite his other striking qualities—the lopsided bun that… … Continue readingAn Interview With Kaveh Akbar
“Most of the law professors and judges who read it were polite enough to say the arguments were thought provoking, but…” … Continue readingThe Line: AI and the Future of Personhood
The Buddha of Suburbia author’s wildly inspiring memoir of illness and defiance … Continue readingShattered by Hanif Kureishi Review – Picking Up the Pieces