She created the aesthetics and rules of interior design that shape contemporary life. Today, millions of homes around the world adhere to the standards that she set
For more than a century after Jack the Ripper became one of history's most feared and famous murderers, his identity remained a mystery. Then last year, on a tour of Scotland Yard, a best-selling American crime novelist met a leading British authority on the Ripper. In an excerpt from the resulting book, PATRICIA CORNWELL reveals how she and other investigators used state-of-the-art forensic science, including DNA tests, to make the case that the serial killer who terrorized Victorian England was the handsome, gifted young artist named Walter Sickert.
It is customary in our political circles to link cultural modernism (and its negative social consequences) to Jewish influence. While there are strong grounds for this stance, things are sometimes more complicated than this narrative would suggest.