In Heresy, Catherine Nixey strips these pretensions away with a complete (but scholarly) lack of mercy. Her focus is on ...

It’s the start of the rainy season in Sierra Leone, the west African country known for its beautiful beaches and tropical ...

As Ernest Hemingway famously claimed, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry ...

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In aperture synthesis, the individual dishes move one step at a time along railway tracks, registering radio waves from the ...

Feliciana Herrera, Indigenous leader of the Ixil people in Guatemala, will always remember spending weeks – both day and night, through sunshine and pouring rain – protesting outside the headquarters ...

NHS midwife Piroska Cavell was in the middle of her night shift and caring for a woman in labour when she realised that she couldn’t move her mouth. Alone in a hospital room, she was physically unable ...

I didn’t understand Taylor Swift fans until I married a football supporter. The pop star’s intense fandom had confused me for quite a while. Her songs seemed bland and formulaic, her image wholesome, ...

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