All the spectacular 19 th century Russian culture came to mind while reading Amor Towles’s newest book, Table for Two. This time Towles has written a series of short stories along with a novella. The ...

In his 2023 book The Art Thief, author Michael Finkel crucially observed (my book review here) that “art is the result of facing almost no survival pressure of all.” So true, and it raises ...

The 2025 Grammy Awards recognized some of the most talented performers and biggest hits in music. Beyoncé took home the top ...

Tori Nelli opened Arena Art Bar at the end of 2023 with a vision to create a space that was "a little more progre ssive" than ...

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He’s ruled with absolute power for five decades, forever adding to his list of oracular pronouncements—about producing TV, ...

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Photo by El Berger Many Carnegie Mellon students will enter as first-years and graduate four years later having created nothing but three essays for gen eds they complained about and a mediocre ...

An ancient tooth in a crystal vessel inside a gilded silver frame at the Art Institute of Chicago was long thought to belong to John the Baptist, a contemporary of Jesus. But testing ruled that out.

It was a truly powerful sight: the Polish pope who had grown up under Nazi occupation kneeling in prayer at Auschwitz's Death Wall. There, in June 1979, John Paul II asked God for peace during ...

After the killing of John Lennon in 1980, an activist painted an image of the Beatles' lead singer on the wall opposite the French Embassy. This small act of deviance (Communist Czechoslovakia ...