02/06/2014
Tag: history
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01/15/2014
All Made Up
by Paula Marantz Cohen
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01/06/2014
Health Nuts
by Meg Favreau
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12/27/2013
Greek Revival
In English for the first time, Giacomo Leopardi’s extraordinary 19th century diary Zibaldone is an unexpected window on the American relationship with the ancient world.
by Nathaniel Popkin
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12/20/2013
Burn the Paintings
Is iconoclasm anything more than the senseless destruction of art?
by James Polchin
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12/09/2013
Glory at the Fountain of Coca Cola
Coca Cola might just be the closest thing we have to a religion that worships the idea of America — The World of Coca Cola certainly presents itself as such.
by Paula Marantz Cohen
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12/05/2013
A Spoonful of Sugar
"Sweets" might sound like a tame recipe booklet, but the tale of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is actually pretty creepy.
by Meg Favreau
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11/25/2013
In the Buff
The naked woman in art isn’t unusual, but we have trouble viewing the male body as a sexual, or artistic, object.
by James Polchin
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11/21/2013
Labor of Love
This year, classical music fans celebrate the Britten centennial. But no one remembers his lifelong collaborator and lover, Peter Pears.
by Mary Sydnor
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11/18/2013