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Zan Boag: What responsibility does a society have for the health of its individuals? Where do individual responsibility and societal responsibility begin and end?…
It probably says something telling about human beings that the oldest surviving piece of literature is about our longing to overcome death. The Sumerian…
While on holiday in Vienna in 1833, the English poet Arthur Henry Hallam died suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage, aged just twenty-two. Over the…
Zan Boag: I’d like to start with the various ways that one can grieve. I’d like to get a definition of the grieving process,…
After just a week, Flourish by Antonia Case has sold out at some locations in Australia and in some online stores but Bloomsbury is…
"Every now and then an epiphany comes along in the form of a book. Are we being who we secretly thought we could be?…
We're thrilled to be celebrating 10 years of New Philosopher. Back in 2013, we launched the magazine at the Byron Writers Festival - at…
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” Albert Einstein Author/illustrator: Corey…
By Dr Wolfgang Gillier Death is always a family affair. When you have one family, or two. But then who defines ‘the’ family? Is…
Zan Boag: What prompted you to undertake the series of photographs in your work ‘Identical Twins’? Gao Ronnguo: I was born in Shandong province…
By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore Last year my 92-year-old grandmother, April, wrote a letter to The Times of London: “Sir, Why do we have to announce,…
By Allison Arieff Consider this fact of modern life: nearly all of the technological products that we buy and use are designed with planned…
