Nick Lane on the Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

What Your DNA Reveals About the Sex Life of Neanderthals

A cow carcass, buckets of blood, poisoned dogs: A lot of death went into the making of Chaim Soutine’s art

Who is Death Bad For? Assessing Our Attitudes Toward Animals

Iranian New Yorkers Celebrate Khamenei’s Death

How Unstated Legal Ideas Have Deformed the Constitution

Laughing Off Your Mistakes Makes You Seem More Competent

The Supreme Court's Emergency Docket Meets The Inferior Courts' Emergency Dockets

You Look Good in (Morally) Grey: An Ode to Sarah J. Maas’ Rhysand

Mamdani’s Sunnyside Yard Plan is a Distraction

Fading melodies

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life

The war between writers and editors can be long, brutish, and nasty. "Every semicolon was a matter of life or death”

Keith Haring on Creativity, Self-Doubt, and the Love of Life in the Face of Death

The remarkable life and afterlife of Malcolm X

Russell Kirk’s Tragic Sense of Life

When Camus died in a car crash, he was carrying a return train ticket. "The greatest proponent of absurdism suffered an absurd death"

The Story of the First Human to Receive Neuralink Implants: “This Technology Has Brought My Life Back”

How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life

Saving The Life We Cannot See

Strata: The Consolations and Invitations of Deep Time