EditorialAn undated photo provided by Nick Viorst of the journalist Milton Viorst, who synthesized shoe-leather reporting with scholarly insights into the Middle East, with his wife, the author Judith Viorst. (Nick Viorst via The New York Times)
EditorialPete Ventantonio, better known as Jack Terricloth, leader of the band World/Inferno Friendship Society, at Harefield Road, a bar in the Williamsburgh section of Brooklyn, on Dec. 30, 2008. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
EditorialTerracotta kylix (drinking cup), Classical, ca. 480?470 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm), Vases, Interior, kithara player Exterior, obverse and reverse, symposium (drinking party) The decoration of the exterior is caref...
EditorialInkwell with the Name of Amir 'Abdullah ibn al-Hasan Pars, probably 11th century, Excavated in Iran, Nishapur, Bronze; cast, H. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm), Metal, Floriated kufic' is a style of writing in which the angular letters of the kufic script are melde...
EditorialLimestone warrior, Archaic, mid- to 3rd quarter of the 6th century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, H.: 10 3/4 x 6 x 3 1/4 in. (27.3 x 15.2 x 8.3 cm), Stone Sculpture, Egyptian and Greek features are melded in this figure. He wears the Egyptian kilt with a mo...
EditorialInkwell with the Name of Amir 'Abdullah ibn al-Hasan Pars, probably 11th century, Excavated in Iran, Nishapur, Bronze; cast, H. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm), Metal, Floriated kufic' is a style of writing in which the angular letters of the kufic script are melde...
EditorialTerracotta kylix (drinking cup), Classical, ca. 480?470 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm), Vases, Interior, kithara player Exterior, obverse and reverse, symposium (drinking party) The decoration of the exterior is caref...