Every year, revellers flock to New York City’s Times Square to usher in the New Year. In 1999, the celebration... Read More
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In his 1881 guide Our Etiquette and Social Observances, writer Hudson K. Lyverthey aims to outline the “rules for the... Read More
In Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises, protagonist Jake Barnes describes the work of a veteran bull fighter.... Read More
“A dancer’s intelligence,” writes critic Edwin Denby in “A Note on Dance Intelligence” (1944), “isn’t shown by what intellectual allusions... Read More
In Jane Austen’s 1803 novel Northanger Abbey, seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland spends the winter in Bath, a town tucked away in... Read More
In her 1978 book Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag examined how diseases become “awash in significance.” “Nothing is more punitive,”... Read More
