I get it, I get it all too easily, when I read Powers’s preachier novels, whether they’re about trees (The Overstory), race ...

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Barry Moser, an illustrator and professor of art at Smith College, has works featured in a New York City exhibition honoring ...

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Our São Paulo correspondent spotlights the graphic designers, illustrators and publishers making beautiful fiction books, and explores the creative techniques they’re using to push the medium.

New Bedford has selected four sculptors as finalists to create a statue of famed "Moby-Dick" author Herman Melville. The ...

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Lore Segal, the author of prize-winning short stories, novels, children’s books and translations has died, aged 96, her ...

Andrew Davis, Chicago to his core, was telling me a couple of days ago, “I am a visualist, not a wordsmith,’’ but he was ...

The metal band Mastadon is celebrating the 20th anniversary of "Leviathan," its concept album based on the epic Herman ...