Through the medium of diaries addressed to Anne Frank, Israeli novelist Katzir portrays a passionate relationship between an adolescent girl and her married female literature teacher, as well as offering a glimpse of life in 1970s... Read More

Most travel guides are jammed with star ratings and brief descriptions of hotels, restaurants, shopping, and nightlife. By contrast, this book is full of art images, maps, and summary sidebars ranging in topics from the Reformation to... Read More

In her foreword, editor Jane Lahr explains her desire to recapture the imagination of the Celtic natural world through literature and art, especially as our own physical environment deteriorates. Lahr has previously edited or co-edited... Read More

Guerilla art is any anonymous work done in public spaces “with the distinct purpose of affecting the world in a creative or thought-provoking way.” Smith has tread this territory before with her books Wreck This Journal and Living... Read More

Travel writer Meg Parker appears to have a dream job living and working in the French countryside, but the reality of having to deal with an inattentive husband, two young children, and incompetent home remodelers is forcing a rude... Read More

As sixteenth-century Europe experienced an explosion of new ideas during the Reformation and High Renaissance, Florentine artists like Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo flourished and influenced a multitude of others, not only in... Read More

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is deeply rooted in the late nineteenth century: Gardner’s art collection must remain unchanged, or else all objects will be auctioned off in Paris, with proceeds donated to Harvard... Read More

Many authorities label any artwork that has a religious subject “sacred art,” but Titus Burckhardt is different. He posits that art is essentially form, and if the form is borrowed from some type of profane art, the spiritual vision... Read More