Lapham’s Quarterly reprints two rejection letters, illustrating the perils of publishers everywhere. Back in 1912, the London publisher Arthur Fifield channeled the author to reject
The University of Chicago Press’s narration of the artistic life of German painter Gerhard Richter is now in video form as well. From YouTube and,
The latest installment of the Chicago Audio Works Podcast narrates the high points in the artistic life of German painter Gerhard Richter, adapted from the
The finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards, which celebrate the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans books available in the United States, were announced yesterday,
The New York Times has posted a video from Bloggingheads.tv featuring Mike Treder of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and Massimo Pigliucci, professor
Sure, evolution explains how modern humans have come to look as we do, but can it explain how we act? What can Darwinian thought tell
As James Srodes writes in his recent review of Jews in Nazi Berlin for the Washington Times “all significant historical events—even the ghastly Holocaust—tend to
In a recent essay in the journal Places (part of the Design Observer group), Nancy Levinson argues against the recent trend of globe-trotting architecture criticism
The Smithsonian Institution has more than thirteen million images in some seven hundred collections throughout its network of museums, research centers, and the National Zoo.
Toronto’s The Globe and Mail published a review of Adrian Johns’s Piracy in Monday’s edition of the paper. In the review Grace Westcott takes special