If the best-known glories of ancient Egypt are the pyramids, the mummies and the gold of Tutankhamun, then ancient ...

The Danish author Solvej Balle came to fame with According to the Law (1993; 1996 in English): four linked stories about “the ...

In recent decades, critical thinking about the “liveliness” of the natural world has gained momentum. Anthropologists and ...

Angel Kelly is an innocent abroad. To be specific, he is on a slaver bound for Brazil at the close of the eighteenth century, thinking to put his inheritance to fine use by founding a utopian ...

In the opening and title poem of his ninth collection, Ian Duhig recalls finding “a pebble the exact shape of a light bulb”, at which point another “lit … in a thought bubble” above his “dull bulb of ...

To Albert Camus, Amsterdam’s concentric waterways resembled the circles of hell. His protagonist in The Fall (1956), a “judge- penitent” who whiles away his days in a seedy sailors’ bar on the Zeedijk ...

Neill Blomkamp’s underappreciated film Elysium (2013) depicts an Earth ravaged by pollution, a giant shanty town where people lead brutalized lives, most involved in extracting what remains of the ...