Thinking matters
Culture & Ideas
When Lea Ypi discovers a 1941 photo of her grandmother Leman honeymooning in the Alps—despite believing such records were destroyed—she is drawn into a search for the truth about her family. The story unfolds across a turbulent 20th century shaped by war, shifting regimes, and the rise of communism in the Balkans. As Ypi reconstructs Leman’s life—from Ottoman aristocracy to socialist-era Tirana—she confronts contradictions, hidden loyalties, and unanswered questions. Blending memoir, history, and archival fragments, Indignity explores memory, survival, and the moral complexity of judging past lives.
Professor in Political Theory
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Enjoy conversations with leading academics, scientists and thinkers.
with Lisa Appignanesi
Sanctuary: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling, is a book both passionate and erudite about refugees, refuge and the power of story.
Writer and Visiting Professor in Medical Humanities
with EXP for Wikimedia
David Runciman, Professor of Politics at Cambridge University, explores the idea of what we call democracy.
David Runciman is a Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He explores the history of politics and political ideas, with a particular focus on democracy: where it comes from, how different our democracy is from democracy in the past, and what it might become in the future. Alongside his research, writing and teaching work, he hosted a weekly podcast called Talking Politics, with 300 episodes between 2016 and 2022.
A collection of short videos on the issues that matter
with Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips has written some 30 books now and most of them are made up of essays. They're epigrammatic, enlivening, and they use and tease out a genre developed or invented perhaps by Montaigne and made a little more comical by Charles Lamb.
Psychoanalyst and writer
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Economics & Politics
Economics & Politics
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