The lexicographer Kory Stamper’s “True Color” is a sneakily insightful philosophical treatise on what it means to define ...

In the early 1900s, defining color in the dictionary required the expertise of a scientist.

White light can be blinding, cold, unforgiving. Our physical reality often finds it too much as well, splitting it apart any chance it gets. Plants are green because such wavelengths of light help it ...