A Human History of the Mediterranean; By Davide Abulafia; Oxford University Press; 816 pp., $68.00 If you read the better class of these ocean books, you might soon find yourself convinced of the ...
This week, novelist Jonathan Lethem joins Ben Davis to discuss the impact of art on his life and his body of work.
In Jan Donley’s class at Berklee, her students study literature that centers on loss. Loss can make us sad, but it can also help us heal, Donley writes. In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, ...
A new exhibition spotlights a trio who pushed the boundaries of American art and illustrated the experiences of World War II ...
Sometimes, the right book shows up just at the right time. Our book critic encountered two such books this week: Water, Water ...
The celebrated documentarian co-directs this two-night extravaganza on PBS about the towering genius of the Renaissance.
Amy Sall’s sensitive scholarship offers a refreshing counterpoint to previous attempts to visually record the African ...