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portrait of Shevchenko by Ukrainian artist Ilia Shulha, titled Taras Shevchenko Returning from Exil by Boat.
Taras Shevchenko, Poet of Ukraine
Frankenstein's Monster
The Origins of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
The Taras Shevchenko monument in Borodyanka, Ukraine damaged by the Russian attack, April 2022.
Taras Shevchenko, Poet of Ukraine
An art exhibition, probably in Moscow in 1964. Taken by Thomas T. Hammond during his travels in the Soviet Union.
When the Soviets Domesticated the West
book cover - Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town
Top Ten Origins: Summer 2019 Must Reads
Political prisoners in Kengir, Kazakhstan
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The so-called "Elgin Marbles," on display in the British Museum
Classics and the Alt-Right Conundrum
Title page of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, 1818.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Statue of Sancho Panza in Madrid, Spain
Kindred Spirits: Shakespeare and Cervantes in Life and Death
Dmitri Karakozov before his execution, graphite drawing by Ilya Repin in 1866
Crime and Punishment 150 Years Later
This painting by Jean-Baptiste de Saive (1562) portrays the environment of the kitchen as a place of making. As Wall argues, the kitchen was one of the main spaces for women to create and experiment.
Kitchen Wisdom
The culminating moment of Alice, when the pretense of power is exposed and collapses. Carroll was very concerned throughout his life with giving a wide audience of people, not just his Christ Church students, the tools of logical thinking so that they would not be the victims of demagogues and ideologies.
Everyone’s Inner Child Turns 150 Years Old
Cover of Vodka Politics by Mark Lawrence Schrad
Bottoms Up, or Race to the Bottom?
JFK and Jackie Kennedy on a sailboat
Watching JFK Live and Die Years Later
How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate, by Wendy Moore Book Cover.
The Idiot’s Guide to Enlightened Matrimony
William Shakespeare
The Globe Theatre: Shakespeare Lost & Found
Shakespeare For All Time, by Stanley Wells Book cover.
Shakespeare For All Time
Photo of Ernest Hemingway smiling.
The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles
Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, by Kathleen Drowne Book Cover
Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature
Cover of The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction by Max Page.
The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction
A young man stays connected on his cell phone as he strolls by a store advertising the Beatles' music on Apple's online store.
Where have you gone, Holden Caulfield? Why We Aren’t ‘Alienated’ Anymore
The Education of Little Tree by Forest Carter book cover.
Fake Autobiographies: A Great American Tradition
First Lady Michelle Obama reading a Dr. Seuss book to children at the White House.
Celebrating the “Seussentennial”
The Chrysler Building in New York City.
The “Unimaginable” Has, in Fact, Often Been Imagined