The cover of author Tracy A. Daigrepont's book “Relentless” looks like a painting. And that's because it was painted by artist Chastity Sayer Smith.

The stark black-and-white compositions do what Mapplethorpe did best: transform the socially unacceptable into formalist art ...

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

As filming continues on Christopher Nolan's fantasy epic, The Odyssey, in Italy, a new report is claiming to reveal which ...

Some more photos from the set of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey have found their way online, and this time we have a first ...

The China Yearbook, available in both Chinese and English, emerged as one of the highlights at the London Book Fair held from March 11 to 13. As a definitive chronicle of China's development ...

Seasoned hiker Valerie Gillis vanishes shortly before reaching the end of the Appalachian trail. A Maine game warden works to find Valerie, as does a septuagenarian armchair detective in a ...

By Janny Scott Janny Scott’s most recent book is “The Beneficiary ... Barnes, among the first major American collectors of modern art, barrels onto the page in Blake Gopnik’s vivid ...

When the U.S. military refused to let women pilots enlist and the editor of an aviation magazine scoffed at “the woman who thinks she ought to be flying a high-speed bomber when she really has not the ...

For all that coin, the streamer got what critics call “truly off-putting,” On the other hand, the art book by Simon Stålenhag (on which the movie is tangentially based) has a very different ...