Towards the end of Philip Ball’s marvellous book on the history of alchemy he tells the story of pioneering nuclear physicist ...

Part of the appeal of the Boyle myth may be that it promised a clean break: a waymark at which alchemy was cast aside and chemistry took over. But such changes rarely if ever happen in science, and ...

As part of its year-end reviews, NYT Books just named the first book in the author’s new romantasy series one of the best ...

Alchemy and family swirl together in the cerebral new novel from prolific Seanan McGuire, whose wide-ranging novels have received acclaim across the worlds of science fiction and fantasy. Middlegame ...

Perhaps no word better captures the magic of Sir David Adjaye’s architecture than alchemy. For Adjaye, alchemy is a material manifesto, a meditative meeting place of space, time, and memory. It is the ...

Before you cracked open that book (or fired up your e-reader), a slew of decisions had already been made about whether, when and how to publish the work. Many of those decisions are now driven by data ...

Geeti Sen launched her new book, 'Alchemy: Contemporary Indian Painting and Miniature Traditions,' in Delhi. A discussion followed, exploring the book's focus on the fusion of traditional miniature ...