Humans have been interested in making more than one copy of an image since we dipped our hands in ochre and pressed them to the wall of a cave. “The demise of pictures in single copies” writes Richard Benson “is one of the first... Read More

Rights and Racism: Even as Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan was defending Plessy vs. Ferguson, he couldn’t stomach extending civil rights for everyone. “There is a race so different from our own,” he wrote in the landmark... Read More

Like surfing, reading this book will make you happy. Kreeft, philosophy professor at Boston College and author of The Philosophy of Jesus and Socratic Logic, provides ten outstanding reasons to start surfing from ten illustrious sages,... Read More

Several interesting health items have been made public recently by the BBC: Stressed out parents make both themselves and their kids sick. Caring for children with developmental illnesses, like Down’s or autism, weakens parents’... Read More

Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, and Mary Pickford were among Hollywood’s first superstars. Not only were they the first to actually build and live in the Hollywood Hills, but they also constructed a major industry with the sheer... Read More

Tricia Guild started UK-based Designers Guild in 1970. Since then, it has grown into a multimillion-dollar international home and lifestyle company. Taking inspiration from her world travels and her garden, Guild mixes large- and... Read More

There is a woman dressed like a librarian cliché seated on a small bed. Her expression is crushed. Look at her left hand, palm up—it appears almost paralyzed, like it’s lost its grip. A laundry basket of meticulously folded pale... Read More

Andrea Cheng has written and illustrated a very unusual book, "Where the Steps Were" (WordSong, 978-1-932425-88-8), about an ordinary class of third graders, their always extraordinary questions, and the teacher who guides them. Miss D.... Read More