To complete the perilous project his mother never finished, a filmmaker documents Indigenous resistance in war-torn Colombia ...

Life is starting to look a lot less like an outcome of chemistry and physics, and more like a computational process ...

Marks of weakness, marks of woe.’ William Blake captures the suffering and oppression on the streets of 18th-century London ...

Dolls help children create wonderfully vivid and imaginative worlds, while also serving as unsettling reminders of the abyss ...

W Eugene Smith’s photos of the Minamata disaster are both exquisite and horrifying. How might we now look at them? Takako Isayama, a 12-year-old congenital victim of Minamata disease, with her mother, ...

When animals seem to grieve for their dead, such as staying with them for days, is it anthropomorphism or something more?

After years of insomnia, I threw off the effort to sleep and embraced the peculiar openness I found in the darkest hours ...

How two amateur schools pulled a generation of thinkers from the workers and teachers of the 19th-century American Midwest ...

Love is a daily act of devotion for two brothers – one mentally, the other physically disabled – in a shared apartment ...