Workers in Santa Claus and reindeer costumes clean windows outside a building at the Odaiba shopping mall on Tokyo’s waterfront on December 23, 2010. The costumes were worn as part of a Christmas ...
Reading books on Christmas Eve has deep roots in Russian and Ukrainian history. In 1831, Nikolai Gogol’s story “The Night Before Christmas” became a yearly tradition, read aloud to children. This dark ...
Every time I resolve to read through a lengthy work of literature, I am reminded of the funniest scene in Temporary Kings, the penultimate book of Anthony Powell’s 12-volume novel cycle, A Dance to ...