On Music: Violinist Stani Dimitrova discusses how 18th century composers are relevant today.

The little-known book illustrations.

The musician and composer­ on the art of self-transformation, resisting cultures of exclusion, and what he calls "easy camaraderie."

Celebrating 150 years of art, artifact, and Alice.

The writer and naturalist on the temporality of grief, inhabiting the voice of T.H. White, and developing radical empathy with a goshawk.

Aditi Sriram talks with the founder of Inkwell, an online national black book club that launched yesterday, about supporting black writers and influencing the marketplace..

I admit my decision to move my family to Gaza is kind of strange.

Excerpts from Chinese dissident Hu Ping's seminal 1980 essay, translated for the first time into English.

Kamila Shamsie and Pankaj Mishra discuss the absence of political anger in Western literature and why we shouldn’t be so quick to condemn writers like Mo Yan.

Part essay, part interview, part author, part reader, part 'she,' part The Man of Small Vital Facts.