Demonic Males, Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

from International Crime Authors Reality Check Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Those three questions formed the title of Paul Gauguin’s 1897 painting, which he finished while living on a South Pacific Island. It is Gauguin’s vision of paradise....

Tintin Dans Le Chambre Forte

from The New York Times A Library’s Approach to Books That Offend By ALISON LEIGH COWAN Ruby Washington/The New York Times The vault-like room in the Brooklyn Public Library where “Tintin au Congo” was reshelved after a patron took issue with the book. The cartoonist...