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Joe Sixsmith stumbles across a boy's corpse in a cardboard box and into more trouble than he's ever known. Soon his casebook is full to bursting: retired colonial Mrs C.

"Now that we 'curate' even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture' 'Curate' is now a buzzword applied to everything from music fest

"Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom here give each other the gift so many people only dream of: ample, unhurried space to unspool crucial stories of one's life, and an attentive, impassioned, invested,

"As I fold, Yoshizawa Sensei is telling me 'Too much detail, let the paper express the essence.' He is trying to let me hear the silence in my creations.

From "Art History": Someone comes along gives that tedious old thing a new twist or breaks its neck the old questions don't change: what do you want me to say' what do you want

She is the darling of the Manhattan elite, the hope of the national Democratic Party, the MVP of the pro-choice feminist movement, the rock star of the Hollywood Left, and the favorite of the liber

Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as co-leader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia.

"A travel writer with a cult following."-The New York Times "There are very few westerners who could successfully cover so much territory in China, but Porter pulls it off.

SMART and SAVVY WAYS TO PAY FOR COLLEGE...WITH NO DEBT (OR as Little as Possible) With college graduates earning over a million dollars more than high school grads will earn during the course of th

Gutenberg's invention of movable type in the fifteenth century introduced an era of mass communication that permanently altered the structure of society.

In her second collection, Karen Leona Anderson transforms apparently prosaic documents-recipes and receipts-into expressions of human identity.

Chinaka Hodge came of age along with hip-hop-and its influence on her suitors became inextricable from their personal interactions.

It's one thing to start a meditation practice, but much harder to sustain it-and harder still, once we have finished morning meditation, to keep a calm mind in our media-saturated, time pressu

For the past forty years Noam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the most original and wide-ranging political an

In this long-awaited book from the rising superstar of sportswriting, whose blog "The Edge of Sports" is read each week by thousands of people across the country, Dave Zirin offers a riot