Matthew Omolesky
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…
How far Lord Minamoto no Muneyuki had fallen. His grandfather was the former Emperor Kōkō, and his father the Imperial…
Imagine my surprise upon learning, contrary to popular belief and received opinion, that the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle never existed….
The gray mantle of evening had finally shrouded the light of a balmy midsummer’s day, and the good citizens of…
Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter By Gary Saul Morson (Belknap Press:…
The following account contains graphic descriptions of the deaths of victims of the Cultural Revolution in China. La desvergüenza con…
