His 1966 novel, Beautiful Losers, a hallucinogenic potion of Iroquois history and art-as-psychosis, has a sizable readership among college students and literate dropouts.

This book is a life of Jules Verne (the first in English) and an analysis of the romantic-scientific viewpoint of the 19th Century. Industrious Jules Verne was a perfect exponent of that viewpoint ...

The Best Romantic Books of 2022 Forget dinner for two: You’ve got a hot date with a novel. By Keely Weiss Published: Feb 24, 2022 6:58 PM EST Save Article ...

Romanticism describes the era of the 19th century in which artists and poets strove for individuality and originality instead of conformity. Romantics rejected the traditional aesthetic values of ...

John Keats' famous 1816 sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" celebrated the recent discovery of Uranus — the first new planet to be found in more than a thousand years. In fact, says ...

Perhaps "new" is not the correct word: much of the book was previously published by Doubleday in 1980 as Chopin: A Biography, but this new volume is, according to the author's preface, a ...

Khavarani is a decorated architect-turned-painter whose work has inspired research on art therapy and was the subject of Boime’s final book, “The Birth of Abstract Romanticism.” ...

The publication of Hermann Göring’s personal art log lets us peer over the edge of propriety into the eccentric private life of a monster.