
The weight of ordinary existence: Ayşegül Savaş’s The Anthropologists
Barack Obama’s inclusion of The Anthropologists in the list of his favorite books in 2024 has elevated the author’s literary stature.

Barack Obama’s inclusion of The Anthropologists in the list of his favorite books in 2024 has elevated the author’s literary stature.

In Tagalog, the word kapwa reflects shared identity, empathy, interconnectedness, and care and understanding for other people.

Historical writers of colour are continually excluded from school curricula, literary anthologies, and TV adaptations.

In her new groundbreaking book, TMU professor Cheryl Thompson maps the transnational flow of minstrel culture and racial ideologies.

Stone is more than just a material here—it’s the totem pole of the country’s identity, shaping both its history and artistic legacy.

Cuteness contains hidden superpowers: it celebrates the vulnerable, while sapping authoritarians of the gravitas they seek to project.

The G20 culture agenda addresses heritage restitution, socio-economic strategies for inclusivity, digital technologies, and climate action.

Focusing on survivor memoirs that explore life prior to the Holocaust helps illustrate the trajectory of antisemitic agendas.

Languages with top scores for “snow” are all spoken in snowy regions, but top-ranked languages for “rain” were not always from rainy areas.

Amadou Bagayoko, one-half of Amadou & Mariam, died in Bamako on April 4. The globally successful musician was 70 years old.










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