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In John Irving’s next book, the author is returning to St. Cloud’s, Maine, and to the orphanage made famous in his acclaimed ...

The novelist John Irving is famous for telling stories set in his native New England and in Austria, the site of a pivotal ...

Simon & Schuster announced on Thursday that Irving's Queen Esther will be published on Nov 4. His novel will bring back Dr Wilbur Larch from The Cider House Rules, but otherwise features a new set ...

At the National Museum of African Art, a Washington, D.C. artist’s work illuminates a gallery room and honors 54 people who ...

As a new generation is discovering Elizabeth Catlett's work, Ron Rumford hopes that her message of empowerment is instilled ...

The Catholic OT Canon includes - Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, I and II Maccabees - plus sections of Esther and Daniel which are absent from the Protestant OT. Protestant Christians do ...

The sort of throngs you’d expect for a generational prize fight—all of them hoping to get a ticket to the most sensational ...

Koyo Kouoh, who will curate the 2026 Venice Biennale, has assembled a huge survey at the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts in ...

Somaya Critchlow, 31, is showing her provocative paintings alongside a storied collection that includes work by Rubens, van ...

Robert Alexander / Getty Images 8.This is Maud Wagner ... a man who is generally considered to be one of the first Black pilots — and perhaps the very first: He first flew for the Ottoman ...

In a new study released by Princess Kate Middleton’s Royal Foundation Center for Early Childhood on February 2, researchers ...