The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language by Edward Wilson-Lee finds in Giovanni Pico della ...

The book adds details to what is known about the Pope’s childhood but falls short when it comes to his later years. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Social media is a dazzling yet bewildering mix of gems and junk, overflowing with extreme opinions and hastily written posts.

Family identity and professional conformism are as important as any putative Renaissance “individualism” in Iris Origo’s ...

Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life it’s easy to overlook. A ...

Awareness of living in a ‘modern’ age was strong among humanists of the Renaissance – the term invented in the 19th century to denote a 15th- and 16th-century scholarly movement seeking to restore ...

It blends the life of Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746–1817) – a nobleman, military engineer, revolutionary and humanist – with contemporary debates about identity, reconciliation and memory.

M.T. Vasudevan Nair’s works mirrored the sociopolitical changes and renaissance that Kerala went through. M.T. was truly multifaceted. He was also a journalist who went on to become the editor ...

Like vinyl, but for photos: Why film cameras are back in focus A photographer herself, Lee expects the renaissance of digital point-and-shoot cameras won't be short-lived among this younger ...

As someone with a tech founder, finance and real estate investing background, I am hopeful that a new U.S. manufacturing renaissance can bring back jobs and investments into parts of America that ...

These treasures found fertile ground in Italy, where humanists eagerly embraced this influx of ancient wisdom. Western Europe had laboured under an 'inferiority complex' for centuries, believing the ...