Centuries of interpretation have separated the self from the world, but glimpses of an older mode of being can still be found, even in the most inward-looking modern literature

‘Reflecting on the political situation in Indonesia today, we have come to the conclusion that we need to REST’, said representatives of the foundation

Der Literaturnobelpreis 2026 geht an Anne Carson aus Kanada. Das teilte die Schwedische Akademie in Stockholm mit. Schon in der Vergangenheit galt Carson als Favoritin auf den Preis.

Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · October 5 · 1h 12m

Maricarmen’s eviction from Madrid apartment after over seven decades set off wave of protests against housing crisis * ‘Now is the moment’: housing activists at Madrid encampment pin wary hopes on Spain’s early election María del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old whose eviction set off a nationwide wave of protests against Spain’s housing crisis, has died. News of her death came two weeks after Maricarmen, as she had come to be known across Spain, was evicted from the Madrid apartment where she had lived for more than seven decades. Continue reading...

Reading draws on brain systems involved in language and imagination. Studies are exploring how it relates to wellbeing and understanding others.

Britain has private ownership while making the state responsible for planning via subsidies. The result is a zombie...

In 1704, Isaac Newton predicted the end of the world sometime around (or after, 'but not before') the year 2060, using a strange series of mathematical calculations. Rather than study what he called t...

Belgian physicist worked to build Antarctic observatory that tracks neutrinos from deep space.

European Green party says motion goes against its policy, with German Green co-leader calling it ‘intolerable and unacceptable’

Who is really in charge? The people or the markets? Aditya Chakrabortty speaks to the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis

A poet-anthropologist listens to a field recording from Kashmir: What might be dismissed as noise becomes a way to unsettle the settled.

Her great themes were timeless, the stuff of the ancients’ ancients: perception, eternity, travel, the problem of evil. She repudiated Aristotle, denied the primordial split between myth and natural philosophy: Anything could, and would, be likened to everything, in the service of the sentence.

Scientists have long wondered whether different neural mechanisms govern each language within a bilingual speaker’s brain. A recent study of people who speak both English and Spanish hints at a single...

Die Ausstellung „Seeing Sound, Hearing Time“ im Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin zeigt erstmals in Europa Kunstwerke des japanischen Popstars und Komponisten Ryuichi Sakamoto.

In Jakarta zeigen sich die dramatischen Folgen des Klimawandels: Der steigende Meeresspiegel droht die Millionenmetropole auszulöschen. Dabei warnen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler schon lang...