Follow the ‘dumpster archeologist’ Lew Blink as he pieces together people’s stories from the objects they’ve left behind ...

To complete the perilous project his mother never finished, a filmmaker documents Indigenous resistance in war-torn Colombia ...

Dolls help children create wonderfully vivid and imaginative worlds, while also serving as unsettling reminders of the abyss ...

How two amateur schools pulled a generation of thinkers from the workers and teachers of the 19th-century American Midwest ...

Marks of weakness, marks of woe.’ William Blake captures the suffering and oppression on the streets of 18th-century London ...

After years of insomnia, I threw off the effort to sleep and embraced the peculiar openness I found in the darkest hours ...

Sailors, exiles, merchants and philosophers: how the ancient Greeks played with language to express a seaborne imagination ...

Love is a daily act of devotion for two brothers – one mentally, the other physically disabled – in a shared apartment ...

When animals seem to grieve for their dead, such as staying with them for days, is it anthropomorphism or something more?

W Eugene Smith’s photos of the Minamata disaster are both exquisite and horrifying. How might we now look at them? Takako Isayama, a 12-year-old congenital victim of Minamata disease, with her mother, ...