The 20th century gave us works that defied traditions across the arts: for instance, Igor Stravinsky’s 1913 The Rite of Spring, a ballet whose setting, in a pagan world, and enactment of human ...

This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and their 15 contributors are drawn from a variety of scholarly backgrounds — including ...

Sheila Heti is a Canadian writer whose books include How Should a Person Be?, The Middle Stories and The Chairs are Where the People Go. Her latest is the novel Motherhood, in which Heti tries to ...