Byzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled ’emperors of the Romans’. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and structural changes, …
The literary imagination may take flight on the wings of metaphor, but hard-headed scientists are just as likely as doe-eyed poets to reach for a metaphor …
Our fear of the world ending, like our fear of the dark, is ancient, deep-seated and perennial. It crosses boundaries of space and time, recurs in all …