It is a courageous soul who would take on the challenge of writing a Life (even a partial Life) of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Recipes can take many forms, from detailed sets of instructions to simple lists. Stuck to my refrigerator is a carefully ...

Alex Clark and Lucy Dallas look forward to 2025’s most tempting reading, plan a Jane Austen road trip and resolve to sit up straight.

Nineteen fifty-six in Britain was a cold, grey year. Through February the temperature never rose much above zero; the bitter back end of winter segued into the wettest summer in a decade. Gerald ...

Paul Valéry has sometimes been dismissed by readers as obscure, dry and overly theoretical, but there can be little doubt that he produced some of the greatest poems in the French language. Take “The ...

This past May, the topic of a citizens’ panel at the European Commission was “Tackling Hatred in Society”. As has long been recognized, emotions inevitably enter into political persuasion, discussion ...