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My odyssey with Christianity began last summer at Wal-Mart, when I saw a teen New Testament amongst the romance novels and bargain blenders. Since I’m Jewish, I’d never gotten to read the Holy Bible and was quite curious. Sadly, it lacked a barcode...
Today's science, replete with certainties, has little room for aesthetics. Yet for the Macleays and their contemporaries, beauty was more than half the point. The specimens were prizes, to be sure, shown off to friends and rival collectors, but they were also, in their mysterious affinities and variations, clues...
July 20, 2007 was a strange night in my hometown of Naperville, Ill. Normally adored by businessmen for its travel-guide beauty, reviled by teens for its mind-numbing monotony, and frequented by twenty-somethings for its moderately hip bar scene, downtown Naperville was alive on this night in a...
Anyone who has read Ackroyd's bestselling London: The Biography (2000) - or almost any of the 40 volumes of fiction, biography, history and literary criticism he has written since the 1970s - will know that London is his consuming passion, that his reading of history is distinctively nonlinear, and that his...
In the Autumn of 1997, Yau Leung was just starting to earn a minor artistic reputation when he slipped off a ladder in his studio, hit his head, and died. That the light should have left the eyes of Hong Kong's greatest photographer in so banal a manner makes...