From Seed, what will happen when the two most populous nations on Earth join scientific forces? A review of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy. Foreign Policy looks back at the war’s most memorable moments. A Space Odyssey's feuding fathers: The 20th century's defining sci-fi epic was a byproduct of collaboration between two geniuses with wildly divergent worldviews. An interview with Kyoto Prize winner Hiroo Inokuchi on dreams of a carbon future. Anders Kreuger presents extensive research underlying "The Continental Unconscious", his exhibition about Finno-Ugric art and culture that opens in Tallinn this month. Stories about the workings of the real mafia evoke horrid images — and make for good reading. The novelist Isabel Allende once took a potent hallucinogen to overcome writer's

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