Thanks to bequests by James Bowdoin III, the College had one of the best libraries in New England and probably the first public collection of old master paintings and ... (1820), author of the many ...

Every day this week, the Book ... to sketch moving portraits, restoring joy and freedom and movement to what, in other hands, might have been mere statistics. — Laila Lalami, author of “The Other ...

Mort Gerberg and I met in 2017, in a stuffy conference room/holding pen in the offices of The New Yorker. We were among the ...

Within a picture-perfect two-story house in Roosevelt, Long Island, where he grew up, Eddie Murphy is still a pure suburban ...

Author Carrie Courogen in her new biography of Elaine May did not do enough, intelligently enough, to lasso her subject’s ...

The watercolor cover art for the first edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was painted in 1996 by a recent ...

Maurice Sendak, author of “Where the Wild Things Are” and “Alligators All Around,” is the focus of the Skirball Center’s new ...

How old is the nature-nurture debate? Created with Sketch. The debate about nature ... In 1874, he published the book English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture, arguing that inherited ...

Author Mitzy Dadoun launches a new humor book titled, “Everything Men Know About Women: The Complete Unabridged and Updated ...

What to watch over Fourth of July about the American Revolution and founding figures — whether satirical, thoughtful or ...