The 20th century gave us works that defied traditions across the arts: for instance, Igor Stravinsky’s 1913 The Rite of Spring, a ballet whose setting, in a pagan world, and enactment of human ...

It is a decision likely to break the hearts of traditionalists. Once the sole preserve of tacky tourist T-shirts, the heart symbol – as in I ‘heart’ New York – has become the first graphical entry in ...

This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and their 15 contributors are drawn from a variety of scholarly backgrounds — including ...

The heart sign has entered the Oxford English Dictionary as the first graphical symbol to signify a word in the reference work's 127-year history. The symbol is among 45,437 new words and meanings ...

Sheila Heti is a Canadian writer whose books include How Should a Person Be?, The Middle Stories and The Chairs are Where the People Go. Her latest is the novel Motherhood, in which Heti tries to ...

The Beary-Kannada-English dictionary is a symbol of communal harmony as it shows the close links of Beary with Kannada, Tulu, Malayalam and English, said writer Aravind Malagatti on Monday. He was ...