Beginning in 1912, Defiant Spirits traces the artistic development of Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, Lawre...

Against the warnings of his advisors, in 1508 Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel. This is ...

While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The arti...

Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art--The Last Supper.

An anthology of stories edited by John Joseph Adams.From Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer; from Castlevania to Tru Blood, the romance between popular c...

Given its extraordinary span, its international scope, and its variant styles and groundbreaking stylists, A Century of Great Suspense Stories is a singul...

Roman-masquerade, novel-labyrinth, novel-matryoshka; one of the brightest debuts in English literature of recent years. In a dazzling line stretching over th...

Ross King is the bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and the Last Supper and Enchanting Madness. Claude Monet and the Water Lilies. His next book is a fa...

In the West, politicians and journalists of all stripes have referred to Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “thug”, a “tyrant”, a “murderer”, a “Commun...