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For centuries, The Kama Sutra has been one of the most misunderstood texts in history. Mention its name, and many people ...

When David Hockney, a working-class Yorkshire lad, left his Bradford school at 16 to go to art school ... seems a sort of reverse-gender illustration of the Victorian ballad "After the Ball." ...

It seems we’re using science fiction as a roadmap to make our dreams, and more often nightmares, come true. Why is it that we ...

David Brinley, professor of art and design, noticed her interest in form and attention to detail, and he told López about medical illustration, a field that requires accuracy along with advanced ...

Or did he help to mould the future with his predictions? Science Fiction In The Atomic Age argued that writers are largely to blame for humanity's worst inventions, because scientists love reading ...

Mudlark has acquired world rights to the first non-fiction book from comedy actor and author Charlie Higson, with illustrations by Jim Moir. HarperNonFiction publisher Joel Simons bought the ...

Could you spot a postmodern pad from an Art Deco masterpiece ... As Burke says, the Victorian era in Australia saw an evolution from "stripped back" design in the early years to "detail and ...

The biographer contrasts Musk and Huang’s approaches to innovation. Elon starts with a bold, science fiction-like vision, such as standing on Mars, and then works backward to figure out the ...

Chris Gunn Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait for inspiration. In fact, the celebrated science fiction author denounced the idea of waiting for one’s muse. “Habit is more dependable ...

Sci-fi books have long been considered both warnings and predictors of potential dangers of the future, and the books that ...

One of these is known as ekphrasis: an extended depiction, within a literary work, of a work of art. In Catullus ... tomfool stuff” sounds positively Victorian next to Mitchell’s “Wretched ...