There’s surely a thick book to be written about the influence of Javanese gamelan on western classical music. Debussy ...

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The New Deal, George Selgin suggests, did not work the way most historians claim. This economist’s eye-opening analysis shows that the increased government centralization of the 1930s rarely resulted ...

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The introduction of the Japanese television cooking show “Iron Chef” may have immortalized the words of 18th-century French author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin: “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell ...

Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. Credit...Jack Smyth Supported by By The New York Times Books Staff Each January, the ...

East Hawaiʻi Cultural Center’s bronze gong orchestra has returned from a two-week study tour to Surakarta in Central Java, Indonesia, fortified with new musical skills and brimming with stories about ...

Twenty-five years into the 21st century, culture is markedly different than it was in the previous millennium. Everyday life has never contained more stuff—an endless reel of words, ideas, games, ...

Atlas of Maritime Charts (The Catalan Atlas) [detail of Mansa Musa], Abraham Cresque (1375) Mallorca; parchment mounted on six wood panels, illuminated (Bibliothèque nationale de France) In fact, by ...