Growing up, journalist Michael Visontay knew that his Hungarian-born father had survived Auschwitz (while losing his own mother there), and that the family had ultimately emigrated to Australia after ...
Kevin Nguyen's second novel centers on a Vietnamese American family torn apart by internment camps targeting citizens with ...
Geneva played a pivotal role in the Reformation with theologians like John Calvin, William Farel and Théodore de Bèze all calling the area home during the 16th century Protestant movement. Today the ...
The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...
This ambitious cross-cultural exhibition examines the complex links between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire ...
Like an ageing rock band contracted for one last farewell tour, in Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s back playing the hits.
The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...
“Orthodox change nothing,” Father Sava adds. “The faith that was delivered to the saints,” Martin agrees. We pause before a ...
The recycled buildings of Rome, long dismissed by architects, are getting a reappraisal as a model for how to reduce waste ...
Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is ...
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to author and former New York Times Paris bureau chief Elaine Sciolino about the new book, How ...
TikTok and Instagram users have made Libreria Acqua Alta one of the most photographed bookstores in the world. Here’s how the store has adapted to its fame—and thousands of daily visitors.