He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to ...

When inventor and scientist Josh Miele was 4 years old, a neighbor poured sulfuric acid on his head, burning and permanently blinding him. In his new book Connecting Dots: A Blind Life, Miele ...

The first thing that attracted me to purchase the book was its title, “The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality.” After all, I was raised and educated to believe that good and evil ...

In Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez’s dizzying docu-fiction, an Edenic landscape becomes a backdrop for duplicity and paranoia.

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Nobody had thought of a time machine until H.G. Wells wrote about it. Even the equal sign didn't exist until 1557. Our ...