Victor Hugo’s secret world: unveiling the surreal sketchbook of a literary giant
One of the 19th century’s greatest writers, Hugo also found time to produce art admired by founder of surrealism Andre Breton ...
Irish art inspired by the beauty of Europe
Take for example, Mary Swanzy’s painting, Pont du Gard (€25,000-€35,000), which is for sale at Adam’s Important Irish Art ...
Australia’s ‘wild reciters’ sought to change the world verse by verse. Who are today’s provocateurs?
In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ...
The history of The Onion, as told by someone there at the start
Christine Wenc, the author of "Funny Because It's True", will speak Tuesday about how she chronicled the satirical ...
One Word of Truth Shall Outweigh the Whole World
“The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing,” the man who had spent ...
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The Michigan Daily’s favorite first lines
From the iconic and literary to the nostalgic and silly, these are the favorite first lines of the Michigan Daily Book Review ...
The history of ‘common sense’ matters when caring for our common home
Rhetoric around ‘common sense’ tends to focus attention away from climate action, but it has not always been aligned with a ...
A Vivid, Engrossing Biography of an Art-World Contrarian
In “The Maverick’s Museum,” Blake Gopnik presents the contradictory, intriguing, infuriating man behind the Barnes Collection ...
Why Black Satire Is the Art Form for Our Absurd Age
Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing ...
The Routledge Companion to 21st-century Irish Writing: academics deliver hefty report from the coalface on the state of our culture
A mixed-bag on purpose, the volume spans prose, poetry and drama then looks at the new in an uncertain era of change ...
The life and death of a great secretarial school
How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women; By Vanda Krefft Algonquin Books; 279 pp., $29 ...
From the gulag to the rolling hills of Tuscany: 100 Years of Karl Stengel
The centenary of the birth of postwar Hungarian artist Karl Stengel offers a moment to rediscover the artist’s extraordinary ...