The eighteenth-century Hellenist Johann Joachim Winckelmann maintained that the “finest and most beautiful drawing in the world” could be found…
Drodzy są i widziani we śnie przyjaciele… [Dear are friends seen in a dream….] — Adam Mickiewicz, Forefathers’ Eve I…
Portraits of a Mother: A Novella and Stories By Shūsaku Endō (tr. Van Gessel) (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025,…
China is not to be won for Christ by quiet ease-loving men and women. — James Hudson Taylor (1832-1905) Scattered…
U krańca Lublina czworokąt czarny szumem poemat wiatrów skanduje. Klony, brzeziny, kasztany, tuje obsiadły wyspę umarłych. [At the edge of…
Herodotus of Halicarnassus conceived of history as a collective act of cultural heritage preservation, an effort “to prevent the traces…
I Published in 36 lavishly illustrated quarto volumes between 1749 and 1804, the Comte de Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle, générale et…
The 85 essays that comprise The Federalist Papers are in great measure concerned with the principle of the separation of…
I In the German district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab, near where the Schwarzbrunnenbach flows westward into the Zottbach, lies…
Voices of the Fallen Heroes and Other Stories By Yukio Mishima (Vintage International, 272 pages, $16) There has always been…
