Morgiane, perhaps the oldest opera by a Black American, finally receives its full public performance, shedding light on the ...

Composer Edmond Dédé, a Black American living in exile in France, completed the nearly 550-page score in 1887. But the ...

Now, 138 years after it was composed, Morgiane is being produced in a concert setting. Two companies, OperaCréole and Opera ...

In 1887, a composer completed the greatest work of his life: a grand opera, 545 pages long, telling a story of epic ...

From an illustrated Ramayana to a dissident Chinese artist’s works that use lego bricks, a guide to the quiet, unmissable ...

Herbert O. Yardley published a tell-all book about his experiences leading a covert government agency called the Cipher ...

The Nobel laureate’s new novel “We Do Not Part” grapples with an atrocity and the difficulties of bearing witness.

The title of the new fellowship grant is itself an important signalling—named after historian Jadunath Sarkar, who was ...

The manuscript, dated May 20, 2003, is a rare artifact that showcases Cohen's songwriting evolution. Unlike the final version released on his 2004 album Dear Heather, this handwritten page ...

It’s clear that this exhibition was put together by a bunch of absolute nerds — and that’s a compliment of the highest order.

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

A book called "Mars Project" originated as a technical appendix to a science fiction novel, both of which were written by rocket science pioneer Wernher von Braun.  The technical appendix was ...