Bergman: There is a surgical aspect to restoration and to restorative art: suturing wounds, resetting bones. But it requires a wide variety of skills, including elements of sculpture and cosmetology.

From a letter written in 1905 by Friedrich Trump, Donald Trump’s grandfather, to Luitpold, prince regent of Bavaria. Trump had been ordered to leave Bavaria for failing to complete mandatory military ...

[Easy Chair] The Spirit of the Age This July will be the two-hundred-fiftieth birthday of the Declaration of Independence, but for me, the far more notable occasion is the fiftieth anniversary of the ...

The Incest Diary, by Anonymous. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 144 pages. $18. The Incest Diary is not an abuse memoir, though it is an account, a true one, of sexual abuse. Its anonymous author was first ...

From a New York Times report, published January 14, 2015, on the outcome of the Powerball lottery. The world’s biggest lottery jackpot of $1.5 billion will be a three-way split of $528 million each.

At first I dreaded having to investigate the history of sleep. Human slumber appeared impervious to time and place, stubbornly immune to the element of change animating most works of history. My own ...

Whereas child bed wetters in sixteenth-century England had been directed for their malady to consume the testicles of a hedgehog or the windpipe of a cock, Enlightenment science, which rejected ...

From The Frenchmen, or My Life in Theory, which was published last month by Penguin Press. The classicist Allan Bloom called deconstruction “a circus performance.” The conservative columnist Roger ...

Every now and then when I walked Rosie some guy would ask me whether I wanted to stud her and I always said I did, someday. I collected phone numbers and put them in my book. Tom, 549-1694. Sometimes ...

From an early age, I was very interested in nudity. My father was a nudist manqué. He made many attempts, to which I was witness, to cajole my mother into going with him to a genuine nudist colony in ...

Elden Ring, developed by FromSoftware. Bandai Namco. $59.99. Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, developed by FromSoftware. Bandai Namco. $39.99. Video games, even when played alone, have to be ...

Wendy Carlos: A Biography, by Amanda Sewell. Oxford University Press. 264 pages. $34.95. Electronic music existed in the United States before the majority of Americans had access to electricity. The ...