Dvořák practiced what he preached, and the result was (in the view of many) the finest work of American classical music ever written. Nathan Jones · Issue 9 ·
Bois and his colleagues at October changed, for a few decades, the way that art historians dealing with modernism in America worked. David Carrier · Issue 9 ·
For Adams, beauty is “a synonym for coherence and structure underlying life… beauty is the overriding demonstration of pattern that one observes.” Daniel Asia · Issue 8 ·
Ochre and earth pigment are situated at the nexus of huge elemental cycles, a gazillion years of outer space galaxy creation, a few billion years of geological and biological growth on (and of) Earth, and several hundred thousand recent years of human evolution.Lydia Pyne · Issue 9 ·
Contrasted with the daring actions of Adler and Nicolai, Einstein’s early pacifism seems very appealing because it is similar to the low-level pacifist behaviors that many of us exhibit.Alberto Martinez and Tom Palaima · Issue 9 ·
Gjekë Marinaj, Teach Me How to Whisper: Horses and Other Poems, translated from the Albanian by Frederick Turner and Gjekë Marinaj. Syracuse University Press, 223pp., $40 paper.
Frederick Turner, Latter Days. Franciscan University Press, 160pp., $15 paper.
Stephen Smith, The Scramble for Europe: Young Africa on Its Way to the Old Continent. Polity Press, $23, 200pp. paperback.