For half a century, activist and author Vandana Shiva has been arguing for a simple life. A conversation about false abundance and the necessity of downsizing.

What do you need in life? From Canada to South Africa to Pakistan, people around the globe explain what they can't live without. Here Fatma Aydemir and T. C. Boyle say what is indispensable.

On the social media platform TikTok, #celibacy has become a global trend. Why are more and more young people voluntarily abstaining from sex?

Writer, playwright and poet Ben Okri spent his childhood in London and Lagos. He has approached the subject of water in three new works of short fiction

Poet, translator and journalist Leo Boix writes about what it feels like to jump into a lake of melted snow in a South American summer

A woman is sitting alone on a bench on a shore in spring, waiting for her lover. A tale about a secret place by the water

The system critic Naomi Klein explains why she still has a glimmer of hope, despite the climate crisis.

Some sit in the boss's chair, others in a retirement home: The author Pankaj Mishra on the baby boomer generation and the challenges of aging.

Classical music was long the domain of white men. If opera singer Golda Schultz has her way, that's about to change. A conversation about prejudice on and off the stage.

The life of the Inuit in the north of Canada is characterized by ice and snow. A visual journey.

Before the corona crisis took hold, people were protesting around the world. Bartosz Ludwinskis photographs capture tense moments of resistance – from the West Bank to Sankt Peter-Ording. 

The Maldives are seen as a slice of paradise by tourists from all over the world but the archipelago’s inhabitants live a different reality. Here is a photo gallery about a radiant island kingdom and its shadowy world.