Photographer Hélène Binet and co-authors Marco Iuliano and Martino Stierli have selected 10 highlights – from architect Peter Zumthor's Therme Vals to the Pantheon in Rome – from a new book about ...

A breezily charming novel, with a thrilling story that also happens to be true, by a gifted young author amusingly anguished over the question of how to tell it … In principle there's nothing not to ...

In Umberto Eco’s 1983 novel, The Name of the Rose, a ratiocinating monk named Baskerville and his assistant team up in search of a missing text—the apocryphal second book of Aristotle’s Poetics, which ...

In his breakout 2010 debut HHhH, the French novelist Laurent Binet expressed deep doubt about the validity of writing historical fiction — or, rather, his narrator did. Binet's invented history is, ...

“Fragments of Light” is a fitting name for a show celebrating 25 years of ethereally illuminated work by Swiss-French architectural photographer Hélène Binet. Mounted at the Woodbury University ...

Remi Connolly-Taylor reflects on the thoughtful beauty of Hélène Binet's photography, and how it has shaped the work of architects for decades Light Lines at the Royal Academy showcases more than 80 ...

French psychologist Alfred Binet (1859-1911) took a different tack than most psychologists of his day: he was interested in the workings of the normal mind rather than the pathology of mental illness.

Alfred Binet created the first IQ test to identify students needing educational help. Binet's IQ test led to the concept of mental age, comparing a child's intelligence to the average of their peers.

A favorite of the architect Zaha Hadid, Ms. Binet is the subject of a solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. By Farah Nayeri LONDON — When Zaha Hadid’s first building was under construction in ...