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His camera could freeze moments in history, but he also had an eye for the humor and absurdity of everyday life. Dogs were a help there. Photographers with a comic [...]

He wrote outsize histories on a panoply of subjects, found renown in Britain as an indefatigable columnist and infuriated liberals with his outspoken Tory views. Paul Johnson, the prolific journalist, [...]

He wrote outsize histories on a panoply of subjects, found renown in Britain as an indefatigable columnist and infuriated liberals with his outspoken Tory views. Paul Johnson, the prolific journalist, [...]

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Frances B. Johnston, one of the first [...]

A distinguished art historian at Yale, he illuminated the paintings of Seurat, Monet and others by regarding them through a social lens. Robert L. Herbert, a pioneering scholar of 19th-century [...]

Vincent Scully, the Yale art historian whose lectures inspired students for more than 60 years and whose writings on architecture had a decisive influence on its practice in the last [...]

William A. Christenberry, whose widely admired color photographs of the red-clay landscapes and kudzu-wreathed dwellings in his native corner of the rural South describe the slow passage of time there [...]

Marc Riboud, the celebrated French photojournalist who captured moments of grace even in the most fraught situations around the world, died in Paris on Tuesday. He was 93. The cause [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDDave Heath, a photographer whose images expressing his sense of urban isolation and a yearning for personal connection won a fervent group of admirers despite his many years of [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDHanging in the foyer of Ruedi and Ann Hofmann's art-filled home in Newburgh is a large black-and-white photograph by Richard Avedon. Unsettling in scale as well as content, it's [...]

Dave Heath, a photographer whose images expressing his sense of urban isolation and a yearning for personal connection won a fervent group of admirers despite his many years of public [...]

For over a century, this crenellated fortress has attracted European intellectuals and loyal families drawn to its Old World charm and resolute lack of sleek amenities. The owners of the [...]

Eleanor Callahan, the muse for her husband, Harry Callahan, whose varied and sensual photographs of her taken over more than 50 years can be said to rank with Alfred Stieglitz's [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Patrick Leigh Fermor, the British writer whose erudite, high-spirited accounts of his adventures in prewar Europe, southern Greece and the Caribbean are widely regarded as classics of travel [...]

In 1958, fewer than 1 in 10 American adults had ever traveled in an airplane. More than half a century after the worldwide sensation of the Wright Brothers, and almost [...]

By Jennifer Steil Broadway Books, 321 pages, $26 hardcover When Jennifer Steil accepted a job running an English-language newspaper and teaching journalism in Yemen for a year, she must have [...]

Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions By Mark W. Moffett University of California Press, 280 pages, $29.95 hardcover Ants have been subterranean rulers of the [...]

Circling the planet felt too easy for the journalist Seth Stevenson and his girlfriend, Rebecca. To reconnect with the primal vastness of the earth, they decided to go only by [...]

Anyone who has ever griped about freeway traffic or being elbowed on the subway should spend some time with the journalist Carl Hoffman's book. The majority of humankind, it is [...]

Eliza Fay (1756-1816) was an actual Englishwoman, even if she was also, in the words of E. M. Forster, quite ''a work of art.'' Only a woman as confident in [...]

TUCSON has worked hard to shed its reputation as a tanning salon for retirees and snowbirds. To complement its natural beauty -- a national park in its midst and mountains [...]

'I am attached to England, but I have never felt myself very much at home there,' W. Somerset Maugham wrote in his 1954 autobiography, 'The Partial View.' In that he […]

The Fourth Part of the World By Toby Lester Free Press, 462 pages, $30 hardcover The Waldseemuller map of 1507, one of several drawn to incorporate new data gleaned from […]

'We denied ourselves every luxury except one, that of being slow.' So wrote Nicolas Bouvier in 1963, reconstructing from his diaries an improbable journey across Eastern Europe and Asia undertaken […]

Anyone who grew up listening to David Byrne's songs may have trouble adjusting to the pitch of his writing voice. While his lyrics reveal an intensely knowing sensibility, easily bruised […]

When the American travel writer David Farley learned that a controversial Roman Catholic relic -- the circumcised foreskin of the infant Jesus -- had suddenly vanished in 1983 from the […]

BANGKOK DAYS: A SOJURN IN THE CAPITAL OF PLEASURE By Lawrence Osborne North Point Press, 271 pages, $25 I suspect Lawrence Osborne once tried to frame this heartsick tale of […]

LANDSCAPE photographers are remembered for the places they took pictures of and almost never for the places they lived. The most eloquent cenotaph to the lives of Carleton Watkins and […]

Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey By William Least Heat-Moon Little, Brown, 582 pages, $27.99 hardcover William Least Heat-Moon refuses to be hurried, either as a writer or a traveler. […]

IF feminism means a desire for independence from patriarchal authority, the beguines -- a Roman Catholic laic order that began in the 13th century and branched across northwest Europe -- […]

ONE recent afternoon as I sat discussing contemporary art in Antwerp with Sacha Eckes, an assistant at the Galerie van der Mieden -- one of the newer glass, steel and […]

Arabian Sands By Wilfred Thesiger Penguin, 347 pages, $15 paperback The Marsh Arabs By Wilfred Thesiger Penguin, 233 pages, $15 paperback They don't make Englishmen like Wilfred Thesiger anymore, and […]

TOURISM is by some economic measures the largest business in the world. Oil companies, airlines and manufacturers of ski boots, bikinis and chocolate mints for hotel pillows all depend on […]

SEEING Fort Worth and skipping Dallas is sort of like visiting Buda but not Pest. The two cities are so codependent by now, intertwined by their joint airport and a […]

THE 19th-century shopping arcades of Paris, or passages couverts, are proof that anything modern, if spared the wrecking ball, can be stimulus for nostalgia. When these iron-columned, glass-covered structures shot […]