New books and articles

22/12/2014 - 13:59

There was a bit of a problem with all of this natural selection stuff, though: Darwin didn’t know how it, uh, worked. Offspring had a mix... →

17/12/2014 - 14:44

A kind of miracle The next stage after graduation was to get her work published in journals. “It’s very hard for a new writer to get an... →

13/12/2014 - 14:35

There is a much better natural explanation for how a temporary path across the Red Sea could have been revealed. It involves the tide, a... →

07/12/2014 - 12:35

However, the click had some unfortunate side effects. It flooded the web with spam, linkbait, painful design and tricks that treated users... →

01/12/2014 - 15:24

The general atmosphere of mistrust between Russia and the West, especially the United States, also has an impact on Middle Eastern issues.... →

22/11/2014 - 15:02

To read Benjamin and the story of his life is to open a world of knowledge – especially that of the last century, which begins to look like... →

16/11/2014 - 18:46

This sounds rather complicated, yet we know perfectly well what Woolf is talking about. A new kind of book might offer pleasures we haven’t... →

12/11/2014 - 14:00

They repeat the great mantras of the era: The president is the president of “stability,” the antithesis to the era of “confusion and... →

08/11/2014 - 20:45

Icons of the Holy Land Using many examples, Rubin shows how Rashi’s sketches became iconic representations of the Holy Land. They were... →

04/11/2014 - 13:51

“Tel Aviv Noir” exposes through short fiction the seamier sides of the Israeli city known as “the Bubble.” Akashic has previously published... →

29/10/2014 - 13:01

Galactic commons When the US was confronted with this query in the early 1950s, it lobbied for the recognition of outer space as a global... →

24/10/2014 - 12:40

Patrimonial states can be highly stable. They are constructed using the basic building blocks of human sociability, that is, the biological... →

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