Author: Martin Puchner

What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not ...

Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of c...

Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were wiz (in the know). This hybrid l...

You might have heard the saying 'you're in a pickle' meaning you're in a difficult situation. This is just one example of Rotwelsch, an ancient lan...

'A writer of genius' - William Dalrymple'Remarkable' - Kwame Anthony Appiah'Utterly captivating' - Anthony DoerrCan anyone really own a culture? Th...