Though not considered an official artistic movement, the golden age of illustration began shortly after the Civil War and ended just before World War II. Flip through popular illustrated magazines and ...

This spring, the novel coronavirus pandemic has raised the issue of the relationship between the blindest kind of religious faith and rational skepticism — this time in two countries that think of ...

Guest: Juan Cole is a public intellectual, prominent blogger and essayist, and the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the translator of The ...

O wilderness were Paradise enow! THOSE are lines you might sort of know but have no idea where you know them from. Maybe your father or your grandfather used to quote them to you. Or maybe, like me, ...

This year marks the bicentenary of the birth of Edward FitzGerald, an outstanding writer who has done more than anyone to popularise English poetry. His best-known work, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ...

Edward FitzGerald was a wealthy Victorian eccentric with a wonderful way with words. His interpretation of the verses of the Persian Omar Khayyam (1048-1123) – poet, mathematician, and astronomer – ...

Although Khayyam did consider himself a poet, he is much better known as a poet since English poet Edward FitzGerald was the first person who introduced this Persian genius to the world as a poet. Few ...

Filmed in part across Iran during the run up to the 2009 election and presented by Sadeq Saba. Born almost 1000 years ago in Persia, Omar Khayyam was an astronomer, mathematician and poet. His ...

IT is an experience probably common to all that passages in literature which have been perfectly familiar become suddenly illumined with new meaning when one or more of the senses is brought forward ...