"Distance," writes the French philospher Jacques Ranciere in his latest book, "is not an evil to be conquered but the normal condition of any communication." A sobering thought in a time when any kind ...

An exhibition, Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Quiché through Illustration, featuring 65 original artworks by artist Jaime Arredondo is on view at Irving Archives and Museum. The exhibition is ...

That this text survives to this day is something of a minor miracle. Spanish priests threw any Mayan texts they could lay their hands on into bonfires as the works of the devil. However, one complete ...

During the pandemic, English professors Edgar Garcia and Timothy Harrison began to notice connections between two seemingly different texts also written in moments of crisis. John Milton’s epic ...

“As a German filmmaker after the war, we grew up as – not only me, but all my peers – we grew up as a fatherless generation – as a generation of orphans. Our fathers either had fled the country, were ...