David Baddiel’s candid memoir, My Family, is mostly about his parents and their “unbounded non-parenting”. I puzzled over the ...

The ideas of the German-Jewish mathematician Emmy Noether (not least the four-part theorem that bears her name) laid the ...

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The Ming doctor Li Shizhen’s pharmacopoeia is widely known in China, and the man himself has appeared on postage stamps and ...

The base, the coup, the counter – and what we might expect from a second Trump term ...

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For thirty years Oleg Khlevniuk has mined Moscow’s archival sources for publications on Stalinism, its leading henchmen and its social consequences. He is one of a now endangered species: a Russian ...

A new translation of the work Simone Weil considered her greatest ...

This fascinating biography opens with its horrible subject, David Litvinoff, coming round after a severe beating. He is naked, bleeding, has had his head shaved and is bound to a chair which is in ...

According to conventional wisdom, religions are systems of belief. Religious people are “believers”. Christians believe that Jesus rose from the dead; Muslims believe that Mohammed was the final ...