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DECEMBER 6 In History 1060: Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary. In 1061 Bela changed the Market Day from the traditional Sunday to Saturday which may have been part of an attempt to remove the Jews from the commercial activity of the kingdom...

A Survey of Writers on Contemporary Writers Listening to writers read and discuss their work at Newtonville Books, the bookstore my wife and I own outside Boston, I began to wonder which living, contemporary writers held the most influence over their...

ROLAND BARTHES once said that “the only sort of interview that one could, if forced to, defend would be where the author is asked to articulate what he cannot write.” One could set a similar standard for the literary biography, demanding that it construe...

. The following series of interviews from the early 1990s gives a good sense of the Marxist art historian Meyer Schapiro’s life and work. You can download a selection of his writings by clicking on the links immediately below. “A Critique: Pevsner...

[NOTE. One of the noble traits in the lives of classic heroes was the enduring reverence in which they held the preceptors of their youth their mental parents. Ancient history has given us interesting records of the recollective veneration for those...