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Tim Flannery
Our cells are comprised of a series of highly sophisticated “little engines” or nanomachines that carry out life’s vital functions.
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Eric Christiansen
Prejudice against the medieval runs deep. It is an adjective applied to atrocity, to all severe punishment, out-of-date technology, and illiberal attitudes. For many, the Middle Ages are ineradicably reprehensible, as well as comic.
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Martin Filler
Over four decades Antoni Gaudí worked toward a church that would be both intensely personal yet embracingly universal, startlingly unprecedented though rooted in tradition, and altogether rich and strange.
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Hugh Eakin
How can the Arab world’s most promising new democracy also be one of its greatest producers of violent jihadists? For Tunisia, the question has become a matter of almost existential importance.
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Ingrid D. Rowland
This summer, in the ancient Greek theater of Syracuse in Sicily, Aeschylus’s The Suppliants, one of the world’s most ancient plays, turned out to be one of the most timely, in the hands of director Moni Ovadia.
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Christopher Benfey
Teddy Roosevelt proudly took Rudyard Kipling to the Washington Zoo on several occasions, and “talked about grizzlies that he had met.” Kipling wasn’t interested in bears, however. He much preferred the beavers.
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ITINERARY
Enrique Krauze: Mexico City may not appear, at first sight, to be an international capital of art, but it is, though in a relatively unassuming way
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EXHIBITION
William Dalrymple: The extraordinary renaissance of the arts that took place in the Deccan region of India during the 16th century is beginning to receive the attention it deserves
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