This newsletter blends reflections on history, culture, science, and monsters. It appears 2-3 times a month. Sign up now for free! You’ll automatically receive an excerpt from Humans: A Monstrous History.

Written by Dr Surekha Davies, historian of science and author of, among other things, Humans: A Monstrous History (University of California Press, 2025) and the multi-award-winning Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters (Cambridge University Press, 2016), this newsletter includes updates about her writing, podcasts, and speaking events.