It is a commonplace to see the German philosopher and economist Karl Marx as a towering figure in the 20th century. Banners with his benign, elderly, bearded face – rather like Renaissance pictures of ...

Adam Brody and Leighton Meester's home in Pacific Palisades has burned to the ground, while Hollywood is canceling and/or postponing premieres and awards shows. Lisa Kudrow belatedly finds note in ...

THESE MUSINGS are stirred by the arrival of the latest major Marx biography—Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life,by Jonathan Sperber (W. W. Norton, 672 pp., $35.00). Sperber is an expert on ...

The CIAJG / José de Guimarães International Arts Centre (Guimarães, Portugal) presents Troubles with Primitivism—a view from Portugal an exhibition-essay curated by Mariana Pinto dos Santos and Marta ...

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Bright, intelligent, and passionate, Karl Marx's youngest daughter Eleanor is among the first women to link the themes of ...

Bright, intelligent, and passionate, Karl Marx's youngest daughter Eleanor is among the first women to link the themes of ...

Eleanor Marx, Karl and Jenny Marx’s youngest daughter (1855-98) was brought back into our intellectual and political landscapes by Rachel Holmes’s extraordinary biography, Eleanor Marx, A Life ...

The playwright Bertolt Brecht was born in 1898 in the German town of Augsburg. After serving as a medical orderly in the First World War and appalled by the effects of the war, he went first to ...

Karl Brauer is a contributor to Forbes Cars and Bikes. As a lifelong car enthusiast Karl has combined his passion for personal transportation with his passion for writing and analytics. The result ...

Fancy broadening your cultural horizons? A visit to a European Capital of Culture may be just the ticket, suggests Dixe Wills ...

PHILADELPHIA — Tests on Karl-Anthony Towns’ thumb revealed more than a sprain. The Knicks center, who officially was ruled out of Wednesday’s 125-119 overtime win over the 76ers before the ...