Music, Literature, Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2025) broadens the interpretive horizons of Lynch's filmography, calling for a new approach to Lynch's films that goes beyond cinema and visual art to explore how Lynch's work engages with literary and musical works that have shaped the American imagination...
A Journey of Artistic Discovery by Sister Wendy Beckett - Casting her expert eye over art from six centuries, from the society portraits of Van Dyck to David Hockney's nudes, Sister Wendy sheds modern light on classic works, while illuminating the historical influences that have shaped art today...
Bon VoyageYou’d think it being the last night of the season would mean that everyone feels inclined to let go of their grudges. Not Lara. The Rehearsal(S2/E6) Come Fly With MeA brilliant finale brings the season in for a personal, unexpectedly moving landing. ...
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle, as well as from your own Arouse in other person an eager want Part 2: 6 ways to make people like you Chapter 1: Do this and you’l...
but that they instead had been murdered by an evil wizard namedVoldemort. Harry was the only person to have ever survived an attack by Voldemort—by somehow rebounding the latter’s “killing curse”—which left him with alightning-bolt-shaped scar on his forehead. Indeed, Harry’s mysterious...
Pedro de Montengón y Paret introduced narrative genres then popular in France—philosophical and pedagogical novels in the style of Jean-Jacques Rousseau—with such works as Eusebio (1786–88), a four-volume novel set in America that exalted the religion of nature. Montengón also published El...
possible and—most of all—desirable were ingenious ideas born in Los Angeles, ideas that turned the new American city into the brain center of automobile sales in America. Most importantly, car dealers were the early adopters who broadened the market and convinced the general public that cars ...
the deep implications of such a topic. It simply doesn’t work like that. The media will speak to the masses, the middle of the bell-shaped curve where all the superficial illusions live. What DID happen on December 21, 2012, at Copan in Honduras, was actually quite astounding and affirm...
Front Royal, Virginia— America has a strong tradition of religious liberty. It also has a history of persecution that is less well known. The confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court could assure us that we are championing liberty for the next generation. We have frequently been...
Tiya Miles’ beautiful new book,Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation, opens with a provocative suggestion: Being outdoors—experiencing unfettered, wide, risky and exciting natural environs—can open one up in unique ways that defy gendered expectations. ...