Creating ‘Gothic Modern’

Uncanny and vaguely malevolent, the institutional Gothic style replaces bloodthirsty lords with soulless corporations

Today in Supreme Court History: April 4, 1861

Species of leased concern

America Spends a Lot of Money on Seniors

The Biology of Belief

Between the User and the Used: Zadie Smith on Instrumentalism

Helping data centers deliver higher performance with less hardware

What Happened to the Ancient Bug Giants of 300 Million Years Ago?

The April Fool’s Vaccine — Why We Need to Be Fooled

The Islamification of Britain

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

David Bowie: The Making Of A Modern Saint

American Diner Gothic

“Rather than being a footnote to premodern folly, the Rosicrucian affair turns out to sit at the narrative center of the modern world”

The Fight For The Modern Dictionary

Surprising partner preference found in matings between Neanderthals and modern humans

Typists, editors, and arbiters of art. Literary amanuenses like Theodora Bosanquet, Véra Nabokov, and Valerie Eliot shaped modern literature

The “delicious joy” of creating and recreating music

Are we on the verge of creating synthetic life?

Jeelani Bano, the matriarch of modern Urdu letters, passes away at age 90

The Tortoises That Inspired Modern Robotics