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How Renaissance painters brought human presence to the fore.

Two new biographies differ over the astronomer’s view of the relationship between science and faith.

Despite all the focus on Guantánamo, a great many of America’s domestic prisons also routinely abuse inmates and in actual practice are often beyond the rule of law.

The funky chaos of the 2009 Venice Biennale.

You don't need to go to Iran or North Korea to find secret courts. Try attending a US immigration hearing.

The poems of Umberto Saba let tradition speak to and through modernity.

John Leonard, former literary editor of The Nation, died November 6 at 69. From the archives, his iconic piece on Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize win, in his honor.

Salman Rushdie probes the limits of the imagination to produce his most coherent and readable novel.

In its zeal, the federal immigration agency has been deporting US citizens.

At her mentor's funeral, Cynthia Kang revisits ghosts of the past,
receives a cryptic message, and watches the detectives watching
her.