A book of intimate interviews reveals how reluctant people are to speak about their true desires.

Beware of theories about human nature based on the study of our earliest ancestors.

More than iron, stone, or oil, wood explains human history.

How a group of anthropologists set out to study other societies and reflected on their own.

Ari Aster's folk-horror flick is frightening, beautiful, and just a little unhinged.

What the violent death of an American missionary on a far-flung island might say about the rest of us

A folklore expert tries to understand the people who ruin the internet.

How a 1950s professor built a gigantic database of thoughts and feelings.

A solution for working mothers that has been around for centuries

There is a history in some cultures of the 'peaceful' consumption of human bodies

With the involuntary help of a social anthropologist