In the dedicatory preface to his 1904 play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, J. M. Barrie…
Not far from Germany’s border with the Netherlands, nestled between the meandering Lower Rhine Valley and the sodden marshland engirdling…
Apreciar lo antiguo, o lo moderno, es fácil; pero apreciar lo obsoleto es el triunfo del gusto auténtico. [To appreciate…
From our vantage point overlooking a broad, closely forested river valley, we gaze across the slow eddies of the watercourse…
I Maurice Berger, the French child psychologist, psychoanalyst, and professor at the National School of Magistrates, has spent some four…
Balabish, 1915. Thomas Whittemore and fellow members of the Egypt Exploration Society have spent the winter conducting excavations at this…
I The Zionist social critic Max Nordau began his 1916 treatise Die Biologie der Ethik with a vivid recapitulation of…
I In a dimly lit corner of Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum, amidst an impressive array of Buddhist art bequeathed to…
I In a dimly lit corner of Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum, amidst an impressive array of Buddhist art bequeathed to…
History is a series of nights and days. Short days and protracted nights. — Nicolás Gómez Dávila I As the French…
