People in the West are responding to modern life by reviving ancient pagan spiritual practices.
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Untold Fortunes: A Reading List on the Creative Uses of the Tarot
Five stories that explore cultural and literary references to the tarot.
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Knotty Business: A Delightfully Tangled Reading List on Knots
Six stories on our fascination with knots.
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Ingenious Librarians
“A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed search tools for it.”
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The Horrors of Pompeii
“The name ‘Eutychis’ was etched into a wall 2,000 years ago. Finding out who she was illuminates the dark side of Rome.”
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Flat Places
“Whenever I stand in a flat landscape, I feel myself becoming weightless, taken out of my childhood full of painful nothing.”
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Best of 2024: The Stories You Missed
It’s been a busy year: Here are some noteworthy pieces that may have passed you by.
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The Free Dogs of India
“These canines have independent, peaceful, happy lives without a pet’s constraints. Why are they being persecuted and culled?”
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Children of the Ice Age
“With the help of new archaeological approaches, our picture of young lives in the Palaeolithic is now marvellously vivid.”
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Hearts and Brains
“Humans always end up with clogged arteries, right? That’s not what the lives of the Tsimane in the Amazon basin tell us.”
