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Methodical Banality

Our narrative prison

The Last Letter

The Ecstatic Swoon

Why alien languages could be far stranger than we imagine Essays

The many lives of Eurasian daimonology

Why is English so weirdly different from other languages?

The cat that wouldn't die

Why Pale Blue Dot generates feelings of cosmic insignificance

Shame and Revolution: Vietnam’s potent and storied anticolonialism

How Kerala got rich

There's no emotion we ought to think harder about than anger

The necessity of Nussbaum

Thought-Tinkering – The Korean German Philosopher Byung-Chul Han

So Many Unmarried Men

In Praise of Subspecies

Moral Progress Is Annoying

French modernists were alarmed, inspired by newspaper's voracious dynamism

There are no pure cultures – we have always been global

The Underground University

J G A Pocock's "Machiavellian Moment"

Roaming Rocks

Who can claim Aristotle?

Tech-vexed: how digital life threatens our capacity for awe

The cochlear implant question

The Flavour of Mechanisation

Could Humans Hibernate?

Austen and Darwin converged on the question of beauty

The life-changing magic of Japanese clutter

Witches around the world

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