How poetry, history, and intellectual pyrotechnics fill four days at the Virginia Festival of the Book.
By Bella Stander
Nashville becomes Literary City, U.S.A. for the tenth annual Southern Festival of Books.
By Meredith Hindley
Ghanaian kente cloth has become a symbol of pride and identity around the world.
By Tom Stabile
A thirteenth-century epic of prophesy, exile, and empire goes digital.
By Ronica Roth
An artistic exchange links New Mexico and Japan.
By Rachel Galvin
The beginnings of empire.
The photographs of Jacob Riis regain their original look.
By Bonnie Yochelson
Treasures from the Bishop Museum tell the Hawaiian royal story.
By Anna Maria Gillis
Japanese traditions survive on a Kona coffee farm.
By Elizabeth Schlatter
Long-unseen Native American objects find a refurbished home in Pittsburgh.
By Michael J. Gill
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Humboldt in the New World
Journeying through South America, Alexander von Humboldt sought nothing less than "the unity of nature."
Done with Tolstoy
Famed translators Pevear and Volokhonsky reach another milestone.
By Kevin Mahnken
A Workingman's Poet
Frankness and plain speaking made Carl Sandburg a celebrity.
By Danny Heitman
The Blue Humanities
In studying the sea, we are returning to our beginnings.
By John R. Gillis
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What accounts for Emerson's endurance as a writer?
By By Danny Heitman