The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins’s first book, was published in October 1976 and 50 years on, it is still selling, in more than 30 languages. For a science book – not least one with “gene” in its ...

Located in the heart of the Indian metropolis of Mumbai, Dharavi is one of the world's most densely populated slums; home to nearly 1 million people. Made famous by the film "Slumdog Millionaire", ...

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In 1976, Richard Dawkins published a book titled after an idea he’d come up with while teaching a lecture on animal behaviour for his PhD supervisor. It just so happened that the idea of The Selfish ...

Christians struggle to help displaced residents find shelter. Every Saturday morning, Joshua Idowu, 37, picks up his soccer cleats and a whistle and leaves his home in Makoko, a century-old fishing ...

Whether it’s a partner, a father, or a friend, we’ve all come in contact with a selfish person before in our lives. They use condescending language, invalidate our feelings, and constantly convey the ...

Norman Podhoretz’s friends—there were no dissenting voices among them—warned him not to publish Making It. Lionel Trilling, the high priest of the New York intellectuals, told Podhoretz that his ...

Is he a slumdog millionaire? An Australian influencer has been accused of engaging in “poverty tourism” after filming himself “surviving” in an Indian slum, as seen in a viral Instagram video. “I ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Billionaire Gautam Adani’s ports, power and cement businesses have made him Asia’s second richest person. Now, he’s quietly building a multi-billion dollar real estate empire that’s reshaping one of ...

Eduardo Ariedo is a video game journalist known among friends for leading Bohemians, an Irish football club, to a Champions League title in Football Manager—just mention the game, and his eyes light ...