ArtReview1d
Sylvia Snowden: Between Presence and Absence
Between figuration and expressionism, Snowden’s paintings lead us on a road to nowhere ...
The Economist1d
Books that imagine that history took a different course
Mr Rosenberg’s novel does not have the high literary merit of Amis’s, but it is a clever reimagining of a tumultuous period ...
La Brújula Verde1d
The World’s Richest Man in the First Half of the 19th Century Was a Chinese Merchant Who Lent Money to American Millionaires
If we asked who the wealthiest person in the world was in the first half of the 19th century, many would likely think of ...
Greek Reporter1d
First Map of Known World Created by Ancient Greek Anaximander
The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.