School was built for a world that ended
Bells, rows, age groups and one right answer. The school most of us attended was designed for another century. What should it teach when…
Bells, rows, age groups and one right answer. The school most of us attended was designed for another century. What should it teach when…
Mohamed Choukri learned to read at twenty and wrote the most honest book about poverty in modern Moroccan literature. It was banned for almost…
A name is a small flag a family raises over a child. When our own names begin to feel old-fashioned, it is worth asking…
Hemingway’s old fisherman comes home with nothing but a skeleton. Seventy years on, The Old Man and the Sea still asks what losing actually…
We are told to be happy the way we are told to be productive: constantly, visibly, and with a smile. Philosophy has older and…
Eighteen centuries ago, a writer from Madauros in today’s Algeria wrote the only Latin novel that survives complete. It is still about us.
