Defying the predetermined shapes of her world, a woman must carve out her own space in this stunning, surreal animation ...

Like billions of people, I use caffeine. But there is a glaring double standard in the drugs we stigmatise or celebrate ...

Moved by mystical visions and the French Revolution, William Blake crafted a radical blueprint for living with purpose ...

Many think the answer is obvious: we ought to cut immoral people out of our lives. But that isn’t necessarily the best option ...

Browsing Spotify for music to pull me through the slog of a grey February in New York, I came across the work of Labi Siffre, a 1970s artist I had never heard of. I was immediately taken with his ...

How I learned to hear the voice of my ancestors and speak Lenape, a language silenced for generations Krista Nelson, as told to Dawn Fallik ...

On stage as Mr Fruit Salad, I’ve seen for myself the power of the bizarre and ridiculous to convey what words can’t ...

Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein is the senior managing editor of SAPIENS magazine. Her writing has appeared in Al-Jazeera, CNN, The World and The Poetry Foundation, among others. She lives in Skokie, a ...

Why do our growing environmental and political crises, bearing existential risk for human beings, trigger irrational spending and consumption? I call it asteroid economics. We consume with abandon ...

Over the past decade or so, there has been a huge shift in our attitude to sleep in the Western world. We’ve moved from ‘I’ll sleep when I’m dead’, ‘Sleep is for wimps’ and ‘Money never sleeps’ to ...