The women transfixed by violent crime
The people declaring themselves #truecrimeaddicts or #murderinos., downloading podcasts with names like My Favorite Murder or True Crime Girl Time,…
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Yukio Mishima’s dark fantasies of imperial Japan
Before Mishima committed ritual suicide on 25 November 1970, he delivered a speech from a balcony in the garrison in…
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A campaign to commemorate Dante distracts from a crisis on Italy’s coastline
Though Dante Alighieri’s poem about a pilgrim who sets out from hell to finally reach paradise was written almost 700 years…
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A campaign to commemorate Dante distracts from a crisis on Italy’s coastline
Dante’s poem about a pilgrim who journeys from hell to reach paradise has much to teach contemporary Italy about how it treats…
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Capitalism: the road to world domination
In his history of capitalism’s rise, Donald Sassoon argues that for the economic system to work both the state and the population must accept…
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Data of prejudice: the uses and abuses of the science of race
New books by science writer Angela Saini and psychology professor Jennifer Eberhard look at the “scientific” evolution of racism throughout history.
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NS Recommends: New books from Gretchen McCulloch, Catrina Davies, and Adam Phillips
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language Gretchen McCulloch As a self-declared “internet linguist”, journalist and podcaster Gretchen McCulloch is…
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The strands of Arabia: how a people and religion were built on language
Language, poetry and syntax are inextricably intertwined with Arabian history – modern Arab leaders have tried to master its linguistic forms…
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