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Hieroglyphs, hieratic, demotic: what were the writings of the Egyptians?

200 years ago, Jean-François Champollion managed to solve the enigma of Egyptian hieroglyphics, thereby opening a vast window on the civilization that was at its origin. But if the hieroglyphic writing is the best known, it is not the only one to have been used by the Egyptians of Antiquity who also gave birth to … Read more

Academic compiles unpublished writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer

by Geoffrey Vanhouten

Before he died, Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer showed his son, Israel Zamir, his “chaotic bedroom” – a closet filled with so many documents that, in the author’s words, he would have to “live another 100 years” to see all of this in print. After Singer’s death, the contents of the chaotic chamber – … Read more