Arts & Culture

In 1804, a 19-year-old Oxford University undergraduate named Thomas De Quincey swallowed a prescribed dose of opium to relieve excruciating rheumatic pain. He was never the same. “Oh! Heavens!” he ...

For almost 20 years, I have written book reviews for a weekly newspaper in Western North Carolina. In ...

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the chaos and the noise that seems to be a normal part ...

“A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols,” at King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, England, is the sound of ...

Jane Austen’s last completed novel, “Persuasion,” was published in 1817, less than six months after her death. Austen ...

New York City reaches an intensity during the holiday season that can be felt by visitors and locals ...

Charles Dickens took six short weeks to pen his iconic story “A Christmas Carol,” which tells the tale ...

Despite a significant body of work, perhaps over 3,400 compositions, the works of composer Antonio Caldara remain very ...

Every language has its own weird and funny little nuances that give it a unique charm. Here we ...

Do you face the problem of having too many books with no place to put them? There are many cheap and ...

When it comes to his beloved Everglades, photographer Mac Stone doesn’t like the word “fragile.” The Florida wetlands ...

Night was about to fall, and an old monk was on his way home to the temple. All ...

An extraordinary biography, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” by David W. Blight seems to have captured Douglass's mind and heart ...

“The Supernormal Ability Cookie Kids’ Club” is a new young-teen book that parents will appreciate and kids will ...

Who’s the Insane One? Feng Shi from Qin State had a son who was a sweet and smart ...

In the past 12 years since Shen Yun Performing Arts was established, I have seen numerous performances and ...

Homer's “Odyssey” is, by common and universal consent, one of the greatest poems in the world, possibly the greatest. ...

NEW YORK—Are people shaped innately or are their outlooks on life shaped by their experiences, beginning from the ...

NEW YORK—Both surreal and sometimes cartoon-like, Hansol Jung's new play, co-produced by New York's Public Theater and La ...

This beautifully imaginative album “Auf Flügeln des Gesanges: Romantic songs and piano transcriptions,” on Challenge Records, alternates between a song ...

With the holiday season in full swing, performing arts traditions abound in the city. This Christmas, the New ...

NEW YORK—At the onset of Christmas 1914, an amazing thing happened on the Western Front of World War ...

The “Classic of Filial Piety” is a well-known Confucian classic about filial piety or respect for parents and ...

Gustave Jean Jacquet (1846 – 1909), is known among scholars as one of William Bouguereau’s top students.  Although ...

I have talked in previous articles on the importance of myth and story, and that how we apprehend ...

Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic painter. He is most well-known for his painting “Wanderer Above the ...

On the Brink of Death Now hath my life across a stormy sea Like a frail bark reached ...