Many Renaissance artists sought to perfect the human form, viewing our bodies as vessels of divine creation and inspiration.

The novelist and poet Ursula K Le Guin shows we can reject nihilism and naive optimism by practising our collective freedom ...

Somewhere in the Arctic Circle, Acacia Johnson waits for a photograph. It’s not always something she can plan, or articulate, but she knows it when she sees it. Her favourite images are the ones that ...

Micaela Blei is a storyteller, veteran educator, and story editor based in Portland, Maine. She has won two Moth GrandSLAM championships, co-founded The Moth’s Education Program in 2012, and earned ...

Wojciech Kaftański is an assistant professor of philosophy at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at Jagiellonian University, Poland, and a research fellow at the Human Flourishing Program at ...

Kristin Gjesdal is professor of philosophy at Temple University in Philadelphia. Her books include The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche (2020) and, co-edited with Dalia Nassar, Women ...

Art Funkhouser is a Jungian psychotherapist based in Bern, Switzerland. He trained at the C G Jung Institute, and has published research on dream analysis, precognition, and déjà experiences. He is ...

Advocates are reframing the syndrome as a different way of being – one in which potential for growth and connection endures ...

What does a deep dive into the transcripts of historical seduction trials reveal about how we account for hurt feelings?

Mary-Frances O’Connor is associate professor of clinical psychology at the University of Arizona and the author of The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss ...

Jay Van Bavel is professor of psychology and neuroscience at New York University and at the Norwegian School of Economics. His research examines the role of social identity and morality in judgment ...