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“Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years”

Paul Verhoeven, the director of “Basic Instinct,” has a new skeptical-scholar’s book, “Jesus of Nazareth” (Seven Stories; $23.95). Verhoeven turns out

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The task, impossible at times, is to dialectically hold two uncomfortable truths: that people who have been exposed to indoctrinating narratives most

The Germans, of course, have a long word to describe this process of collectively coming to terms with their gruesome past: Vergangenheitsbewältigung

“When I started out, they didn’t know what to do with me in the US,” he admits. “My music was rooted in rock’n’roll and that wasn’t what was happening

Their moves are at once personal and driven by a desire to connect; and if these artists do not expect to feel wholly at home anywhere in the world, n

For almost 20 years, I have considered myself a student of "negrophilia". This means that I spend much of my time scrutinising how white and black peo

It’s no secret: Black culture drives pop culture. It is “the original avant-garde,” as Felipe Luciano, a former TV producer, has said. But I sometimes

This raises immediately the question of whom one is writing ‘for’. My own, short answer is that I have never had a reader in mind. I have ideas, peopl

A world in which artists think like entrepreneurs, he writes in the Atlantic, is one where “You’re a musician and a photographer and a poet; a storyte

art can change the way we think about culture and ourselves. My interest is in artists who understand and rewrite history, who think about themselves

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory. And the novel is

But human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions. Partial b

The black American writer Richard Wright once wrote that black and white Americans were engaged in a war over the nature of reality.

In 1975, Muhammad Ali gave a lecture at Harvard University. After his lecture, a student got up and said to him, "Give us a poem." And Mohammed Ali sa

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.

Writers in my position, exiles or emigrants or expatriates, are haunted by an urge to look back, even at the risk of being mutated into pillars of sal

It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.

Writer James Baldwin on hate as a defense mechanism: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, on

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" - Walt Whitman

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Paulo Coelho

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to b

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to b

The Career Capital Theory of Great Work’: The traits that define great work are rare and valuable. Specifically, desireable jobs are creative, allow