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From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their ...

From a piece of cloth that may have belonged to Alexander the Great to an image of our galaxy's central black hole, here's ...

The mysterious lady is something of a rarity in the global archaeological record, which contains very few female skeletons ...

Poems from centuries ago can stand in dialogue with painters speaking to their contemporaries, and calligraphy serves as a ...

This anthology attempts to imagine and understand the fraught relationship between humans and nonhumans across various media and through the ages.

After years of setbacks, a sequel to Jim Henson's 'Labyrinth' is on the way — and 'Nosferatu' director Robert Eggers is in ...

Without literature we cannot understand the past, do not understand the present and will fail to navigate the future. Yet it is treated like ...

I am a mirror set before your eyes And all who come before my splendor see Themselves, their own unique reality… Though you have struggled, wandered, travelled far, It is yourselves you see and ...

Unsuitable reveals the power of dress to shape the lives of those who wear it – and to challenge, provoke and bring people ...

With “Context Collapse,” Ryan Ruby aims to explain poetry’s origins and its waves of innovation all the way to the present. By Daisy Fried Daisy Fried’s most recent book is “The Year the ...

Lego bricks, ranked among the world's most popular toys, have become collectors' items, gaining value over time. Both the ...