"The Milton Encyclopedia" offers easy and immediate access to a wealth of information about Milton. It will serve as a general and comprehensive reference tool for general readers, students, and scholars alike, enhancing the experience of reading Mil...

In 2001, Eduardo Costantini, the founder of the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), began collecting artworks from across Latin America. Today, the renowned "Costantini Collection" consists of more than two hundred works, encompass...

Most previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have focused on either his symphonies and operas, or his relationship to the regime under which he lived, or both, since these large-scale works were the ones that attracted the interest and sometimes the...

Boston photographer Fred Holland Day (1864-1933) first distinguished himself in literary circles as a critic, bibliophile, and co-founder of the progressive publishing firm Copeland and Day, before turning to photography in the 1880s. By the turn of...

Known primarily as a great painter, Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) was also one of the best draftsmen of the 17th century. Although his devotional paintings seem to have been created effortlessly, they are the result of careful thought and stu...

Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935), along with his contemporaries Arnold Schoenberg and Anton von Webern, dramatically altered the musical landscape of the Western world. Dave Headlam offers a comprehensive analysis of Berg's music in this orig...

Kindergarten kissing games... four-year-olds playing doctor... a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these-spontaneous and pleasurable-are no longer encouraged in American early childhood classrooms, and in...

The Yale University Art Gallery is home to an amazing collection of American decorative arts. "A Modern World" provides a comprehensive look at the Gallery's holdings of modernist design made in America or for the American market. The catalogue featu...

Werewolves and Wernher von Braun, Stonehenge and the sex lives of sea corals, aboriginal myths, and an Anglican bishop: in his new book, "Moon", Bernd Brunner weaves variegated information into an enchanting glimpse of Earth's closest celestial neigh...

How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or nostalgia? Though sentiment and emotion play a vital role in the composition, performance, and appreciation of music, rarely have these elements been fully obser...