A Conversation with Richard Conniff
April 12, 2016
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History turns 150 this year, and to celebrate, we spoke with Richard Conniff, author of House of Lost Worlds, about some of the fascinating… READ MORE
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Cover Story: Design, Content, and The American School
April 6, 2016
Susan Rather– For a long time, I felt quite sure that the jacket for my book The American School: Artists and Status in the Late Colonial and Early National Era… READ MORE
The Lingering Damage of a Deadly Hurricane
Stephen Long— It can seem like a long wait for Spring to replace the browns and grays of the woods with tints of green. But this time of year has… READ MORE
Rethinking America’s Harsh Criminal Justice System
April 5, 2016
James Q. Whitman— Over the past few years there has been a growing sense of crisis in American criminal justice–a sense on both the right and the left that our… READ MORE
Young Mr. Turner: A Conversation with Eric Shanes
April 1, 2016
A complex figure, and divisive during his lifetime, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) has long been considered Britain’s greatest painter. The new biography of the artist, Young Mr. Turner: The… READ MORE
Words and Politics: Lessons from Nuremberg
March 30, 2016
Joel E. Dimsdale— Seventy years ago the international military tribunal at Nuremberg sentenced Julius Streicher to death for incitement of violence. It was one of the court’s most controversial judgments…. READ MORE
Richard Kendall on van Gogh and nature
Last year, the Clark Art Institute presented a stellar exhibition called Van Gogh and Nature, which Holland Cotter called “one of the summer’s choice art attractions” in the pages of The… READ MORE
Thoreau’s Life with Flowers
March 29, 2016
Geoff Wisner— After graduating from Harvard College in 1837, Henry David Thoreau returned to the village of Concord, where he taught school with his older brother John. At least once… READ MORE
The Particularity of the New Testament
March 28, 2016
Marion L. Soards— In the course of a conversation about religion, it would not be surprising to hear someone refer to the New Testament, meaning by that phrase to name… READ MORE
Easter and Medieval Food
March 26, 2016
Chris Woolgar– Chocolate eggs, simnel cake and a return to those things we have given up for Lent? There are resonances in all these to medieval foods. While there may… READ MORE
Red Sky at Morning at Twenty: A Reflection