If you've ever read a letter from antiquity, you may recognize the strange pull it can have. The writer is long gone, the world around them has vanished, and still, the voice can feel close enough to ...
In November, 2024, on the day of the U.S. Presidential election, Tim Whitmarsh landed in Beijing, jet-lagged and disoriented. It was the middle of the academic term at the University of Cambridge, ...