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Stuart Sillars, author of Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination, examines how concepts in visual art are portrayed in Shakespeare’s plays and poetry, from the Reclining Venus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the emblematic depiction of Lavinia in Titus Andronicus. You can also find out more about Stuart Sillars’ books on his collection page.
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When I began my biography of Nietzsche’s youth, The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche, I expected eventually to dislike my subject. Biographers frequently start by admiring their protagonists, then become hostile. Why should I be different? My experience, however, was the opposite. I found a great deal repellent in Nietzsche at the beginning, then decided that […]
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Many commentators were stunned when, in his acceptance speech at the Republican national convention, Donald Trump insisted that “I alone” can fix the “crisis’ that besets the United States. Things “will all change when I take office.” Although it isn’t easy or comfortable, let’s put aside for a moment the specifics of his indictment of […]
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1861 This photograph, taken for Confirmation, was probably the first portrait of himself that Nietzsche had ever seen. Fundamentally pleased with it, he nonetheless acknowledged its homelier aspects: “My stance is hunched, my feet somewhat crooked, and my hand looks like a dumpling.” 1862 In this image Nietzsche seems quite a different person from […]
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Despite the increasing popularity of reading biographies psychology, as an academic discipline, remains surprisingly uninterested in analysing the course and direction of individual lives. Although longitudinal analysis is highly valued its products are normally limited to statistical generalisations about changes observed over time within a particular sample or population as a whole. The findings represented […]
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The awesome responsibility inherent in controlling the United States’ nuclear weapons arsenal has given an increasing number of experienced former officials pause about contemplating a Donald Trump presidency. Fifty former senior officials, Republicans, stated in a letter opposing Trump that “he lacks the character, values and experience” to be President and would put our nation’s […]
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'Scientists Making a Difference' is a remarkable collection of new essays by some of the world's greatest behavioral and brain scientists in which they discuss their own groundbreaking ideas. Here, the volume editors talk about some of the book's key themes.
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One of the questions I get asked most frequently is why I write about the history of epidemic disease. Why focus on an aspect of human existence that can appear so bleak? It’s true that studying epidemics inevitably means grappling with loss and confronting the pain and suffering of others. The material is sometimes disturbing, […]
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