In the work of artists I admire, all the training and discipline come out in an act of letting go: a splotch of ink, a ...

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And yet, the art created in New York in the 1980s, in all its messy duality of saints and sinners, has endured over the past ...

The Greek epic poem The Odyssey is attributed to Homer and is often described as the sequel to The Iliad. The Odyssey picks ...

Ronald Reagan's election sparked a counterrevolution in the arts community, with Dylan, Bono and Scorsese among those showing ...

In today’s world, most books are produced in massive warehouses, churned out by the thousands. Stacks of paper whirl through ...

Light of Asia’s ‘stunning impact in Ceylon’ forgotten and the ‘Uncrowned King’ buried One of the dozen of books that Nehru ...

Explore the origins of the first written texts, from ancient hymns to the Epic of Gilgamesh—humanity's earliest literary ...

Fantasy without violence? Whoever heard of such a thing? How else the realm supposed to defeat the Dark Lord no one’s gonna ...

Retired professor Stephen L. Hardin has written two standard books of Texas history, one about the revolution, another about ...

"The beginning is the most important part of any work," Plato writes in The Republic, "especially in the case of a young and ...

Teucer, a legendary Greek hero of the Trojan War, is said to have founded cities on the island of Cyprus and in Spain.