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I climbed a low cliff and stationed myself on a bench that overlooked the Firth of Forth. From Kinghorn, the Fife coast and the coast of East Lothian appear to peel away from each other; on the ...

The Canongate Wall is a feature of the Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood, Edinburgh. Designed by Soraya ...

S omething very strange has been going on. Picking up the paperback of Ocean Vuong’s first novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, which has now sold more than a million copies, you encounter blurbs ...

If I weren’t a person, I’d be a mushroom,’ the narrator thinks in Olga Tokarczuk’s House of Day, House of Night.* In Drive ...

British generals and politicians keep warning that the UK needs to be ready for imminent war or – in the government’s ...

Gulbadan Begum was the daughter of the founder of the Mughal Empire. She is the only Mughal woman known to have ...

Belle da Costa Greene was one of the best-paid women in New York City. As J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, she criss-crossed the Atlantic in pursuit of rare manuscripts to add to his collection, ...

Around the middle of the past century, a different sentiment emerged in scientific biography and autobiography. When James Watson’s Double Helix appeared in 1968, it came as a shock. Its frankness ...

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I n the mid-2010s, the Chinese technology company ByteDance studied the leading video clip-sharing platforms, such as Vine and Musical.ly, and identified some crucial weaknesses. The clips were not ...