A stroll across the sky
Every now and then I spend an afternoon in the bookstore, savoring pages and dreaming adventurous stories about far-away characters. Recently I came across an unusual book by the French […]
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The Rewards of Travel
Why do we travel? What do we hope to find in foreign lands? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, like many young aristocrats of his generation, set out to travel, and as […]
The Open Arms of Suffering
Francisco Goya was a subversive man. Much acquainted with suffering, Goya had an instinct for the black side of life – he has paintings called Yard with Lunatics and Saturn […]
The Texture of Reality
A touch. A fingertip feeling pulsing muscles and skin – the same fingertip that had felt the temperature of a glass of milk, that had flowed through curtains and childrens’ […]
Van Gogh’s Death: Post-Impressions
A new book about the famous Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh is taking the art world by storm. As seen this month on 60 Minutes, Pulitzer Prize- winning authors Steven […]
Wondering Fair 