The figure that emerges from Monterroso’s ludic assemblage is one of the sublime fools of literature, a man whose commitment to delusion is itself a kind of glorious art. Through the risible figure of ...

Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey discuss making Luca Guadagnino's 'Queer,' and moving beyond James Bond and 'Outer Banks' for a ...

No painter developed a more singular literati style than Gyokudō, who, at the age of 50, retired from his position as a provincial bureaucrat and spent the rest of his life traveling around the ...

“Ssireum (Korean wrestling)” by Kim Hong-do (penname: Danwon, 1745–1806) (Joseon, 18th century) This genre painting by Kim ...

Abdullaev became a jobless poet who lived in modesty verging on poverty, but frequently travelled to literary festivals in the former Soviet Union, Europe and the United States. Like hundreds of ...

But to many readers beyond these shores, he is just as well known as a master of prose, famous for his limpid, easy style of ...

Scholarly painting in China gained a new set of principles in the 17th century under the influence of Dong Qichang, the so-called "literati" style's foremost advocate. The style involves subtlety, ...

I hate the Yankees, but love New York City. I enjoy Pittsburgh, but definitely don’t enjoy the Steelers. And so it is that I ...