We live in the present, moving through time. As events come and go, everything fades into the past. But what is time, really?

The Booker-shortlisted novelist explains how a single day evolved into a seven-book epic, and what it teaches us about ...

The early modern physicist Isaac Newton had presumed an unperceived yet real flow of time. To Newton, time is a dynamic physical phenomenon that exists in the background, a regular, ticking ...