First, there was Adam, whose creation takes middle stage on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Then, usual out of Adam’s spare rib, there was Eve, relegated to a smaller panel. In Michelangelo’s rendi ...

Of the character sketches that the English satirist Samuel Butler wrote within the mid-seventeenth century—amongst them “A Degenerate Noble,” “A Huffing Courtier,” “A Small Poet,” and “A Romance Write ...

Literature normally reaches us in its completed type, when it has already ossified into irrevocability. By the time a ebook is certain and printed, it's straightforward to neglect that the phrases hav ...