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Actor, director, poet, musician, photographer, publisher – there is nary a creative endeavour to which the American hasn’t turned his hand. He discusses his ‘strange’ work with Lisandro Alonso – and accidentally starring in his own film

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

Fancy a carefree and laidback life? Try your hand at taking a step back and finding inspiration in the 19th-century American thinker

International Yoga Day, dedicated to celebrating yoga as part of the “intangible cultural heritage of humanity,” has proved controversial since its inception in 2015.

Ted Kaczynski, 81, was discovered unresponsive at a federal prison in North Carolina on Saturday decades after he terrorised the US with a series of targeted bombings

The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, has been depicted in various artistic works, and inspired popular culture, with movies and TV series centred around his criminal mastermind

Theodore Kaczynski committed 16 bombings from 1978 and 1995, killing 3 and permanently maiming several of his victims.

Years before the Sept. 11 attacks and the anthrax mailing, the “Unabomber’s” deadly homemade bombs changed the way Americans mailed packages and boarded airplanes, even virtually shutting down air travel on the West Coast in July 1995.

Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday.

Book of Books is different from any other I had come across. It is a fascinating treasure trove of literary delights with many illustrations, and a guided tour of rare books, manuscripts and historical artefacts in a single collection.

In 1971, when Daniel Ellsberg arrived at a federal court in Boston, a journalist asked if he was concerned about the prospect of going to prison for leaking a 7,000-page top-secret history of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg responded with a question of his own: “Wouldn’t you go to prison to…