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Among my favorite works exhibited in the Scaife Galleries of my hometown Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art is a beguiling, enigmatic, and beautiful 1956 painting by René Magritte entitled Le Coeur du Monde—“The Heart of the World.” Completed after Magritte had already established his international reputation as among the most influential and important of Surrealists […]
In his 1953 novel The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow (himself born in Quebec) describes what Augie sees to the north while riding a freight train back to Chicago: Article continues after advertisement …my eyes followed the spin of the fields newly laid out for sowing, the oak woods with hard bronze survivor leaves, […]
Today, the National Book Foundation (NBF) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have announced the titles selected for the fourth year of the Science + Literature program, which is made possible by a three-year $525,000 renewal grant from the Sloan Foundation. Each year since its inception, the program has honored three books—one fiction, one nonfiction, […]
