Maria Popova knows what makes a person. A few hundred pages into “Traversal,” her kaleidoscopic, astounding and often maddening exploration of the evanescence of life and love, she tells us: “What ...
SUTTONS BAY — Rembrandt etched in 1643 his landscape masterpiece in charcoal. The left foreground depicts a couple fishing from the bank of a pond. Far beyond them, across a lush speckled vista, ...