It is a courageous soul who would take on the challenge of writing a Life (even a partial Life) of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

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The Jesus and Mary Chain’s feedback-laden, garage-rock-indebted sound was the second most talked-about element of the Scottish indie band in their early years; the first was the crowd violence that ...

The White House and White nationalism, the crises of capitalism and the Green Dollar, Podemos, En Marche! and the Five Star Movement, Black Lives Matter and #MeToo: in reviews or essays, our writers ...

Oriana Fallaci, who died in 2006 at the age of seventy-seven, was for a while during the 1970s and 80s the most famous – and feared – interviewer in the world, courted and criticized in equal measure.