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Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon shocked the avant garde when it first appeared — and then shifted the course of art history.
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The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti is best known for bringing a powerful vision to bear on physical form and testing its expressive limits.
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The Divine Comedy changed the course of culture. Bestselling author of The Dante Chamber Matthew Pearl explains why.
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Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Seas and Why Read Moby Dick? spoke to us about why the book is so important and what it can teach us.
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What makes us human? Jim Henson and Heinrich von Kleist both had deep insights into our condition.
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Vote early, vote often.
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The only winning move is not to play. Or something like that.
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The classicist and acclaimed critic talks about about why the Odyssey has survived for so long.
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Corruption: it’s everywhere. An excellent new history of the subject helps explain why.
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Alliances: can't live with them, really can't live without them.
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