This new edition edited by Kyoko Wada presents the artist through his teaching and drawing manuals ...

When the U.S. military refused to let women pilots enlist and the editor of an aviation magazine scoffed at “the woman who thinks she ought to be flying a high-speed bomber when she really has not the ...

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Whether you are new to philosophy or already interested in deep ideas, these ten books offer valuable wisdom and are worth adding to your bookshelf. Written as a series of personal reflections, ...

Here the gallery is figured (in the book’s preface) as ‘a guardian of human creativity, a beacon of inspiration and a sanctuary of beauty’, as if no other ideologies might frame the images of ‘the ...

Centering mostly on rabbis and their wayward, modernity-seeking children, the novel — a melancholy book that also happens to be hopelessly, miraculously, unremittingly funny — offers an ...

Four years after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, writer Abdulrazak Gurnah returns with a spellbinding family saga set in his home country of Tanzania. After graduating from university ...

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But sometimes I want something that really makes me feel. That’s where these 33 sad books come into play. From a heartfelt novel that’s a testament to how grief is anything but a linear process to a ...

Red Fuji is one of Katsushika Hokusai's most famous prints. Image courtesy of the Sackler Gallery The scenes depicted in Katsushika Hokusai’s famous woodblock print series, “36 Views of Mt.