Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest StatesWhy did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of todays states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle down and form agricultural villages, towns, and states, which made possible civilization, law, public order, and a presumably secure way of living. But archaeological and historical evidence challenges this

The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Canetti’s aphorisms

where the man grew up with his own ruthless father

nothing – just the light and the yellow and the scent of dry leaves in the sun

And so when one day she meets an intoxicatingly charismatic man who promises just that

Agamben has assembled for the first time some of his most pivotal essays on photography

Exploring the lessons that life on Earth can teach us about coping with complexity

what we can do

A good brother

Both his life and his writing remained true to this form

It is a development challenging the balance of power between online empires and the state

and playwrights

The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects