In 1924, the critic Gustave Geffroy recalled watching Claude Monet at work in London in 1900. Positioned by the Thames in early morning darkness, Monet peered through the fog, waiting for the ...

Corresponding with Bertrand Russell in 1922, Joseph Conrad confessed: ‘I have never been able to find in any man’s book ... And there’s no better emblem of globalization today than the container ship, ...

Dear editor, What is empathy? It is the capacity to “walk in another’s shoes.” To walk in another’s shoes means to understand ...

The rest of April will bring classics in theater, music and art. Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Our Town," is coming to Thomaston, sparking a couple of trivia questions, while the ...

While this century’s technological advancements have made communication easier, they’ve also made more people feel lonely, a trend well underway when the pandemic arrived to make everything worse. Yet ...

Less a true belief than a cynical way to control and stifle opposition, fascism emerged in the early 20th century in Italy, ...

Along the bottom of the ocean run the data cables that connect the modern world. Severance of these cables creates a ...

Everyone knows what collecting is. We know it from childhood: stones, shells, stickers… Artists and designers, too, are fascinated by things and like to experiment with them.

Let’s put some numbers behind a trend you might have already observed for yourself: There are simply a mind-boggling number ...

Royal Caribbean is cancelling visits to Labadee, Haiti, for multiple cruise ships due to worsening unrest in the country.