The Conference of the Birds

“It’s a world that’s designed to please the eye and please the soul.”

By Maryam Ekhtiar and Leili Anvar Oct 6, 2022

Poet Sholeh Wolpé honors the enduring wisdom of a twelfth-century, Sufi epic.

Oct 6, 2022

What can Antico’s small, bronze sculpture teach us about pain, mindfulness, and the creative process?

What does this mosaic reveal about representation in the Byzantine world?

Why is the Honus Wagner card so valuable, and what can it tell us about the history of commerce, marketing, and consumerism?

“The perception of America as an uninhabited wilderness is, in its own way, a historical fiction.” – Alan C. Braddock, professor and ecocritic