Art & Literature

What do a physicist, a Victorian, and a civil rights activist have in common? Before they were heroes, saints, and cultural icons, they were deeply flawed human beings.

For humans, it’s easy to feel slow. Yet these athletic memoirs offer a valuable lesson about how movement changes the people we become and the way we experience the world around us.

How to know what pages this summer make the sunscreen-slathered cut and which will stay on bookshelves? Hippo Reads is here to make recommendations for the smartest, and most engaging, summer reads in arts, literature, and psychology.

In the following three pieces, authors Emeka Ogboh, Jason Tucker, and Luana Monteiro discuss how language has impacted their sense of home in various ways.

In the post-digital age, need the relationship between technology and the humanities be a strained one?

China’s rapidly developing economy—and resulting consumer culture—is re-popularizing one of the country’s oldest folk arts: “Like most things in China, where there is profit, there is counterfeit.

For tall, iconic buildings, height is often a revered quality, but how is it measured and what is the impact?