Waiting to enter the Columbia River Bar in early January 1853, the barkentine Vandalia was heading in from San Francisco, with Capt. Edward H. Beard, of Vancouver, Washington, as master. The vessel ...

With The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe’s 1774 novel of doomed, melancholy love, meeting the fun, funny tropes of a ...

Tom Waits apparently did not love the way rock band Eagles covered his 1973 'Closing Time' album-opener, "Ol' '55".

BBC Radio 2 legend Ken Bruce has paid tribute to his late former colleague Johnnie Walker after the news of his death was ...

O stay and hear,” sings Twelfth Night’s jester Feste in his song “O mistress mine”, “your true love’s coming,/ That can sing ...

The Fireman’s Fountain required frequent repainting due to its exposure to the seasons, especially during the winter when the ...

Yasser Usman’s ‘Guru Dutt: An Unfinished Story’ offers an intimate look at the complicated life of the Indian filmmaker.

Nosferatu blends death and pleasure, but other vampire movies do it more explicitly and (sometimes) more successfully.

The endless iterations of the Orchid Pavilion preface are both an emblem of Chinese culture, and a lens through which China views its past. In imperial China, prowess with a brush was a mark of ...

Caryl Phillips returns to a familiar theme — the immigrant experience — and produces something wholly original.

But it is important to avoid wallowing in melancholy at all costs ... Narcissists are continually looking into the mirror, painting themselves, gazing at themselves, but the best advice in ...

Knowing some people would never get over the novelty, Billy Sherwood decided to go for broke with Ponder The Mystery, featuring Steve Vai, Rick Wakeman, Nik Turner, Edgar Froese and others ...