When Harry Richter, age 8, was picking a second language to learn, he went for the obvious choice: ancient Greek. “It’s just the first thing that popped into my head,” says Harry, a second-grade ...

“I didn’t take any photographs. The sights were recorded only in my eyes. The sounds, smells and tactile sensations that a camera cannot capture in any case were impressed on my ears, nose, face and ...

What does it mean to speak without the hope of a response? To address someone who cannot or will not hear you, who cannot or will not reply? The first three full-length novels by the South Korean ...

This piece was originally featured on Research Matters. Over the decades, faculty and students in the Department of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research have earned a reputation for ...

During a poetry workshop last year, I was trying to write a clean poem, bereft of any blubber. The discussion steered along the lines of the Imagist movement: "Write in distilled images and let go of ...

The ancient language that Alexander the Great used to command his vast empire is to be taught on an Oxford estate. Koine Greek — the language of philosophy, mathematics and mythology — will be taught ...