Across many African literary traditions, the boundaries between the living and the dead, the seen and the unseen, are fluid ...

Movement against loss. Summer has its autumnal thoughts.  / Bets made with your own body.” So begins Malgorzata Lebda’s poem ...

Recently, at the end of a particularly bruising year, another professor and I found ourselves loitering together, draped in ...

In 1836, Charles Dickens hooked the good people of England on a story about a traveling men’s group. Published over two years ...

Is it telling that I was always more interested in the amateurs? When I think about the literary depictions of artists I ...

On the evening of July 31, 1914, after their fruitless visit to the foreign ministry to argue for French neutrality in the ...

Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and ...

What greater magic can there be than the signature trick of all leaf magicians when they extract a rare gas from the ...

Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture—together with the KSE Foundation, the Ukrainian Book Institute, and the International Book ...

Alfred Hitchcock is known as the master of suspense, and he’s one of my favorite classic film directors, creating some ...

On August 29, 1511, Isabella d’Este, the Marchioness of Mantua, patron of the arts, fashion icon, and one of the most famous ...

Magician and escape artist Harry Houdini was quite the collector, filling warehouses and his Harlem home with books, posters, ...