We've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure
Timeless stories from our 174-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.
From The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition, a fourteenth-century encyclopedia by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri, an Egyptian scholar. The book was published this month by Penguin Classics. Translated from…
Read more
“An unexpectedly excellent magazine that stands out amid a homogenized media landscape.” —the New York Times