Henry Giardina on the biography of Carl Van Vechten, a controversial figure of the early modernist movement....

The watershed year of the 20th century; the year we became modern....

IN A RECENT TED TALK, psychologist Eleanor Longden describes being joined in a particularly stressful time in college by “a disembodied voice which calmly narrated everything [she] did in the third person: She is reading, she is going to a ...