The Marina del Rey-based author and publisher of the Claire DeWitt books is coming to Skylight Books with Tod Goldberg on Feb ...

Jon Kalman Stefansson’s novel “Heaven and Hell” recounts a 19th-century fishing trip and its aftermath. John Self is a book ...

Vincent van Gogh committed himself to a psychiatric asylum in southern France, where he spent a turbulent year creating ...

A lost Van Gogh? A $50 garage sale find is now valued at $15 million after new data analysis. Experts maintain it's not ...

A $50 Van Gogh? Experts say no, offering an alternative attribution to the little known Danish artist Henning Elimar.

Vālmīki’s epic poem “The Rāmāyaṇa” is a great work of literature and a treasure of Indian culture — but its political and ...

Two other terrible events involving Israel: February 1994: Baruch Goldstein’s heinous 


 slaughter of some 30 Muslim worshipers in Hebron. And in 1973 – Israeli fighter planes accidentally shot down ...

Readings that the podcast’s guests say shaped their thinking.

On Master Drawings New York, Hokusai, Beethoven’s quartets, a Long Island sarcophagus & more from the world of culture.

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema festival, hosted by Film at Lincoln Center and Unifrance, is celebrating the work of acclaimed ...

As a Morgan Stanley banker, I thought I understood finance and knew my employer. Then I read “The House of Morgan,” a history ...

Two new books, “The Sirens’ Call” by Hayes and “Superbloom” by Carr, argue that our capacity for attention and connection has been devastated by the digital age “Elita” is a novel ...