Across Cultures

Knowledge of a person's temperament allows one to predict with confidence what they will not become, but is less able to predict...

"The Canyon Chronicles" happen to take place from 1845 to the beginning of the 20th century and "tell the story of the Gent...

Ever heard of Spalding Gray? For The Sydney Morning Herald he is "an unholy cross between James Joyce and Hunter S. Thompson", fo...

I thought of oil paintings when I looked at these photos for the first time - a good illustration of the importance of background that my fr...

"Nicht die Droge ist's, sondern der Mensch" enthält Beiträge von Walther H. Lechler (Nicht die Droge ist's, sondern der Me...

Listening to the rumble of the surf he'd tried to imagine the moment when Beethoven had thought of the theme for his Ninth Symphony, a...

When I asked Hatje Cantz for a review copy of Ralf Peters's Until Now I did so because I felt attracted to his photographs of petrol st...