Review Reading an architectural textbook many years after architecture school may seem like rereading the road safety manual we used when preparing for our driver’s license examination. In both cases, ...

Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack was one of the first students of the revolutionary and influential Bauhaus art school in Weimar. Born ...

The China Yearbook, available in both Chinese and English, emerged as one of the highlights at the London Book Fair held from March 11 to 13. As a definitive chronicle of China's development ...

How Vienna’s charming timelessness complements a vanguard of provocative museums, unconventional restaurants, and clever hotels.

When the U.S. military refused to let women pilots enlist and the editor of an aviation magazine scoffed at “the woman who thinks she ought to be flying a high-speed bomber when she really has not the ...

Arcade house of the Dessau savings and building cooperative, "Siedlung Törten, Dessau-Roßlau. Image © Wikimedia user Gunnar Klack licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 In ...

Whether you are new to philosophy or already interested in deep ideas, these ten books offer valuable wisdom and are worth adding to your bookshelf. Written as a series of personal reflections, ...

Four years after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, writer Abdulrazak Gurnah returns with a spellbinding family saga set in his home country of Tanzania. After graduating from university ...