In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical ...

This cover mage released by Norton shows “Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life” by Agnes Callard ... Callard offers a roadmap for using the ancient Greek philosopher for approaching knotty ...

During a time when many are complaining about divisiveness in politics and in society, it seems counterintuitive for a book ...

Moser was writing of Adriaen Coorte (1665-1707), a Golden Age Dutch artist I’d only just discovered, in another book about the Dutch masters: “Thunderclap: A Memoir of Life and Art and Sudden Death” ...

There are always so many interruptions." At the time of his death, Lynch is survived by four children: Jennifer, Austin, Riley, and Lula. Part of the art life so beloved by Lynch was smoking ...

politics and death. Callard’s book is intellectually challenging and hardly a simple crash course on Socrates, but the payoff is worth the time and effort put into rethinking approaches to ...

Estimating the population of Ancient Greece is a complex task due to the lack of accurate historical records and the different time periods.

There was a time when film criticism was alive and well in this country. From Jayawilal Wilegoda from the 1960s to Gamini ...