The Jazz Man , by Mary Hays Weik, is a Newbery Honor book from 1966.  It's a slim book that tells, in four short chapters, of a...

        While at the Arisia convention in January I went to a panel of this name, amused by the idea of  coming up with a new mythological ...

        I recently got from the library the book Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process , which is the companion book to a 2000 exhib...

        English is a language uniquely rich in synonyms, a fact that comes primarily from our history of absorbing other languages' word...

        The famous Japanese artist we normally call Hokusai went by about 30 different names over the course of his lifetime, but I'l...

        Samuel Taylor Coleridge composed his famous poem "Kubla Khan" somewhere around 1797-1799, although the final stanza may ha...