Arts & Life

Authors are just like the rest of us — they like to soothe their anxieties by losing themselves in the pages of a beloved book. Here are some of the ones they turn to when times get tough. Image Celeste Ng ‘The Princess Bride,’ by William Goldman In 1987, my …

Authors are just like the rest of us — they like to soothe their anxieties by losing themselves in the pages of a beloved book. Here are some of the ones they turn to when times get tough. ImageCredit…1 Celeste Ng ‘The Princess Bride,’ by William Goldman In 1987, my …

Fritzsche describes an era that has been covered by other books — not least his own — many times over. As an esteemed historian of how ordinary Germans accommodated themselves to the Nazi regime, Fritzsche is neither revising his scholarship nor breaking new ground here. But there’s something particularly clarifying …

THAT HAIRBy Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida What do we lose in translation? How do we know we’re getting the story right? In the Portuguese writer Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s slim third novel, “That Hair,” this question feels particularly salient, given the nontraditional structure of the narrative. Even in its English …

What’s the most surprising thing you learned while writing it? I tried to surprise myself with every sentence. I didn’t want it to be simply an excavation of anything I already knew. I was trying to lean toward the unexpected, paragraph by paragraph. I knew if I didn’t find that …

A worshipper walks in front of the Dome of the Rock in the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem’s Old City March 13, 2020 REUTERS/ Ammar Awad JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Muslims gathered in smaller-than-usual numbers at al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on …

A HISTORY OF ISLAM IN 21 WOMENBy Hossein Kamaly Thomas Roe, Britain’s envoy in India during the 1620s, wrote of Empress Nur Jehan’s power over her husband, the Mughal emperor Jehangir, that she “governs him, and wynds him up at her pleasure.” The story of Nur Jehan, who was born …

Inigo Philbrick probably didn’t set out to become one of the art world’s great enigmas when, at the age of 24, he opened a gallery and consultancy in London, with the financial assistance of one of the industry’s better known dealers. Had elusiveness been Mr. Philbrick’s original intent, he would …

FILE PHOTO: Van Gogh Museum presents the condition of the restoration of Van Gogh’s painting “Sunflowers” in Amsterdam, Netherlands January 24, 2019. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch national gallery, the Rijksmuseum, and the nearby Van Gogh museum, two of the Netherlands’ premier tourist attractions in Amsterdam, …

LONDON (Reuters) – A series of six paintings by the Venetian master Titian, commissioned by King Philip II of Spain and inspired by the works of the Roman poet Ovid, have been reunited for the first time in four centuries in an exhibition at London’s National Gallery. Visitors look at …