The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...
In the first of four 2025 BBC Reith Lectures, recorded in London, the Dutch historian Rutger Bregman asks what can be done to counter the moral decay of today's un-serious elites. Show more Rutger ...
The writer extols the virtues of immersing oneself in nature and laments the inevitable encroachment of private ownership upon the wilderness. I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom ...
“Through books that will come into being here, I want to help prevent the mistakes of the past from ever being repeated”, Anna Seghers said after she arrived in Berlin in 1947. She had returned as a ...