Cracking symbols and codes, deciphering ancient texts, and uncovering millennia-old secrets are some of the mystifying feats for which fictitious archaeologists are often credited. While we can’t all ...

Bates presents lecturers offering insight into mathematics and medical technology on Feb. 26 and 28. Leila Schneps, a mathematician specializing in number theory (and moonlighting as a murder-mystery ...

This is the second piece in a three-part series featuring Shirley Jackson’s lectures on writing. They are drawn from “Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings,” a collection of Jackson ...

A city-based writing course is backed by some big literary names, but that’s not the only reason you should sign up Lectures on writing from Ramachandra Guha and Vivek Shanbhag, a session with a ...

A fresh take on how New Zealand’s past has been interpreted will be offered at this year’s Winter Lectures at The University of Auckland (21 July to 25 August). The six lectures on “Writing New ...

If the Internet existed and things could go viral back in 1948, Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” definitely would have gone viral. It was published in The New Yorker that summer, and the ...

A fresh take on how New Zealand’s past has been interpreted will be offered at this year’s Winter Lectures at The University of Auckland (21 July to 25 August). The six lectures on “Writing New ...