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Yes, it is possible to write a single-volume general history of art, if you narrow the definition and focus on your own enthusiasms. Paul Johnson is best known for...

Robert Kaplan has spent the past twenty years reporting on local collapses of civilization, chiefly in sub-Saharan Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East. He tells us that, in...

This book is the third of the projected four in John Crowley’s major novelistic treatment of gnosticism and hermeticism. As in the two prior books, Aegypt (1987) and Love...

From Dawn to Decadence is one of those wonderful books that cannot be categorized. Some reviewers have compared it to The Education of Henry Adams , the great intellectual...

TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information by erik davis. harmony. 368 pp. $25. Early on in this fascinating survey of the spiritual dimension of cyberculture,...

This season’s most controversial new program, Nothing Sacred, is about everyday life at an urban Catholic parish. At any rate, it is about everyday life as refracted through the...

Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection By Harold Bloom. Riverhead Books/Putman, 255 pages, $24.95. Harold Bloom, perhaps, needs no introduction. A professor at both Yale...

I rarely have occasion to walk through Times Square in Manhattan, so I found myself somewhat taken aback by how much it had improved when I walked through there...

The ice is beginning to crack in another section of the cold, hard surface of modernity. The part of the frozen lake that is breaking up this time is...

The Physics of Immortality by Frank J. Tipler. Doubleday 528 pp. $24.95 Cultures have their insistences. Navajos, I am told, tend to leave unfinished some little detail of any...