Percival Everett spoke with Dan White, Humanities Writer at UC Santa Cruz, about the creation of his 2024 National Book Award ...

THE traditional conception of England among average Frenchmen is expressed in the words "perfidious Albion." Some years ago I made an effort to run down the source of the term. I failed. One meets it ...

Going back to the Middle Ages, European art and literature have depicted the Jews as perverse ... But Wolgemut’s imaginings of pedophilic torture, Voltaire’s inquiries into bestiality, Burton’s ...

His heavily textured paintings brought him renown in the 1980s ... Richard Sandomir, an obituaries reporter, has been writing for The Times for more than three decades.

Almost 4,000 years ago, an unknown scholar in ancient Mesopotamia wrote the first known book on a series of clay tablets. The ...

Thanks to Dan Brown’s novel, The Da Vinci Code, and its film adaptation, many people think that the books that constitute ...

The Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report 2025 by Arts Economics highlights an industry that, despite a decline in total sales value, remains dynamic and evolving. What factors shaped these ...

When, in the 1960s, the hieroglyphs—the most sophisticated writing system created in the New World—were at last beginning to be deciphered, a new picture of these people emerged. Mayan art and ...

A curtain opens on a stage to reveal different shaped animated characters - a sphere, a cube and a pyramid. NARRATOR: It's crunch time for the 3D crew. And who's going to take home the coveted ...