Matthew Omolesky
It has become a custom of mine, each year towards the end of June, to attend a daylily flower show…
Nestled among the three thousand or so engraved slabs and columns that make up the city of Xi’an’s sprawling Stele…
It was during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song, so the story goes, that a maiden from Hangzhou, a…
Back in April, during a question-and-answer session at the Islamic Center of Boston in Wayland, Massachusetts, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)…
Still, thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me! The present only toucheth thee: But Och! I backward cast my e’e, On…
We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the…
Ohne jene Kunst würden wir Nichts als Vordergrund sein und ganz und gar im Banne jener Optik leben, welche das…
Ay me! I see the ruin of my house. The tiger now hath seized the gentle hind; Insulting tyranny begins to jut Upon the innocent and aweless throne:…
It is the morning of May 12, 1892, and the Lithuanian-born landscape painter Isaac Ilyich Levitan has just left his…
I The Hall of the Order of St. Catherine is the most intimate of the five staterooms within the forbidding…
