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By Valentine Rossetti The commercial release earlier this year of the film ‘I Am Love [Il Sono L’amore]—directed by Luca Guadagnino and co-produced by Tilda…

By Jason Smith We all have a soft spot for libraries. Maybe from being taken to the small local library by a primary school teacher…

By Sabreen Maryam Ali To read the morning newspaper in Britain today is to trudge through reams of dissent and disapproval with a worldly air…

By Michael Atkinson Authors’ biographies have traditionally delivered varying ratios of worship and destruction—the first quantity an organic by-product of book-love, the second an equally…

By Rob Killick The Institute for New Economic Thinking, funded by billionaire George Soros, held its first Conference in early April 2010. Just in case…

By Peter Heller Nowadays, the typical presentation of a futurologist is a near-infinite roll call of possibilities. Sometimes more than a hundred slides create something…

By Bill Borde In one of J.G. Ballard’s short stories, advertising hoardings beam rays into the minds of consumers, causing them to swerve off the…

By Denis Joe We were introduced to Nondumiso Hlwele, Bongiwe Mba, and Thobani Ncapai, three members of Bambanani, and the artist Rachel Gadsden. Last year,…

By Nikos Sotirakopoulos The period from the evening of Tuesday, the 1st of November until the afternoon of the 3rd of November 2011 will be…

By David Birch I tend to arrive in Stratford at night; the Jubilee brings me in, the Central takes me out. These days as I…

By Sam Burt Is it acceptable for a publicly-funded British institution to be seen to be tacitly complying with the restriction of artistic freedom by…

By Mark Napier With a plethora of scientific and technological developments such as sustainable energy, interstellar mining operations, in vitro (laboratory grown) meat, synthetic biology…

By Brenda Stones The recent refilming of The Great Gatsby must have sent a lot of us back to reread the book: and what an…

This article [Defoe and the Distance to Utopia] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/01/25/defoe-and-the-distance-to-utopia/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you…

This article [Emma Goldman’s “Anarchism without Adjectives”] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [https://publicdomainreview.org/2011/01/12/emma-goldmans-anarchism-without-adjectives/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish…

This article [Beatus of Liébana] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/04/18/beatus-of-liebana/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse…

This article [Tales from Tahiti] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/02/08/tales-from-tahiti/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to reuse…

Thursday, December 29, 2016 According to a study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), is…

How did physicists figure out that the raisin cookie model was incorrect, and that the atom’s positive charge was concentrated in a tiny, central nucleus?…

Nineteenth-century physicists spent a lot of time trying to come up with wild, random ways to play with electricity. The best experiments of this kind…