This comedy strips away much of the complexity of Goethe’s masterpiece.
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A novel that invites adoration and controversy in equal measure, Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther has endured in the popular imagination.
A poem by the Persian polymath Sa'adi helps us understand our shared vulnerability to coronavirus
Much like the fictitious Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s novel, more and more scientists are running away from their real-life creations.
The concept of dignity is not universal. It means different things to different people and different cultures.
The great polymath’s late output reads like a manual for artists saying goodbye.
Decent people take comfort in the idea that money is not profoundly connected with happiness. There are statistics that suggest that as income increases happiness does not rise to an equal degree; and…
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