Sphen the gay penguin died earlier this year. He was eleven years old. He and his partner, Magic, had shared the raising of ...

The ideas of the German-Jewish mathematician Emmy Noether (not least the four-part theorem that bears her name) laid the ...

At the end of Chapter III of Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Alice emerges from the Lethean wood, is promptly abandoned by ...

The Irish aptitude for storytelling has long been lauded as a national characteristic, and its outlets in different literary ...

The Argentine novelist, journalist and librettist Pola Oloixarac pulls no punches. (Unimpressed by Han Kang’s recent Nobel prize, she condemned the new laureate as a “middle-brow author” who writes in ...

In 1971 I decided to return to Argentina after several years of wandering in Europe. The military dictatorship was in full force. Jorge Luis Borges was soon to publish an open letter accusing the ...

The best museum sleepover ever would be to spend a night in the Parthenon Gallery at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, bedding down among the sculptures, looking out at the Parthenon itself. That is ...