"๐ฝ๐๐๐๐ช๐จ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐ก๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ค๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ ๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ก๐จ๐." -Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Lecture
The Khmers built imperial sites and magnificent temples as they ruled over much of Southeast Asia. Today, this city of ruins is simply the most beautiful in the world.
During his battles with mental illness and depression, there were times when Wallace thought writing was not worth the anxiety it caused, and other times when he felt writing was the only way to subdue the maddened voices in his head.
In the last half of his life, Opalka created a figural representation of time - by painting a sequence of integers on endless canvases.
It was a marriage of minds. An accomplished writer herself, Hardwick would become the cradle for Lowell's life and poetry, carrying him through his bouts of madness and even infidelities.
Greene and Greene pioneered and perfected the Craftsman Bungalow. It was L.A.โs first vernacular style - adopted across the country and among the few recognized around the world as a truly original American architecture.
Drawing from his own moral compass, from beginning to end, every element of Whitten's art was the product of his hand and mind.
A pioneer of LA's Light and Space Movement, Robert Irwin transformed art from an object into a philosophical experience.
Sexton's poetry held nothing back. She wrote about mental illness, infidelity, erotic fantasies, incest, even the abuse she wrought on her own children.
33 years after a fatwa was issued because of The Satanic Verses, Rushdie was attacked by someone who hasnโt even read any of his books.
A confluence of cultures, the Mughal Empire left monumental architecture and exquisitely-detailed art unique to the subcontinent.
