In 1866, journalist Andrew Halliday led his readers on a guided tour of one of London's foremost card manufacturers - to reveal how emotions were being 'manufactured.' ...
A cousin of Christian Science and the progenitor of the self-help industry’s more-secularized “positive thinking” gospel, ...
The J. Paul Getty Museum is presenting the first major exhibition of Gustave Caillebotte in the United States. Caillebotte ...
Stephen King’s Danse Macabre (1981) argues that horror serves a cathartic function, allowing creators and audiences to confront fears safely, providing an emotional “workout” that helps individuals ...
Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.
How to revive an 18th-century upstate farmhouse without resorting to cliché? By pretending a made-up person lives there too.
The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled father and the fate of a high school classmate.
The "Armenian Smyrna/Izmir The Aegean Communities" volume was the outcome in a series of research topics explored in ...
In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...