In his essay "Why Look At Animals?" John Berger mourns the lost reciprocity of human-animal exchange. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, he writes, animals were not just meat, leather, and horn, but ...

Lydia Millet’s “Magnificence” is a novel of ideas. I mean that as a high compliment, for the ideas Millet invokes are the only ones that matter: life, death, love, longing, extinction, the ongoing ...

More than a million people make the arduous ascent to this wonder of the world each year. And most of them bring cameras, so even those who can’t make it are in luck. One of the rewards of hiking up ...

Down-at-heel scruff, uppity, tightlipped professional or shifty ne’er do well – what is your judgment? What if you actively mined for the magnificence in the shuffling old biddy, tattooed youth or ...

Debated concepts : magnificence and splendour -- The classical and medieval precedents for magnificence -- The magnificence debate in fifteenth-century Florence -- The currency of the magnificence ...