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The Merv Oasis in present-day Turkmenistan contains the remains of several cities that occupied successive sites along the historic Silk Road. Known in antiquity and the medieval period as an important center of trade, government, religion, and scholarship, it preserves monuments from multiple civil...

"Suttree" is a novel written by American author Cormac McCarthy, first published in 1979. Set in the early 1950s, the narrative follows Cornelius Suttree, a man who has abandoned his privileged background to live in a houseboat on the Tennessee River in Knoxville. The book provides a stark, detailed...

The Visitation is a woodcut by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer from his Life of the Virgin series. It depicts the biblical meeting of the pregnant Virgin Mary and her older relative Elizabeth, who was carrying John the Baptist, with the women greeting one another before a carefully observed...

The Group is a 1963 novel by Mary McCarthy that follows a group of eight women who graduate from Vassar College in 1933 and pursue their lives in New York City over the subsequent decades. The novel was a bestseller upon publication and is noted for its frank depiction of women's experiences with ca...

A Charmed Life is a 1955 novel by American writer Mary McCarthy. It follows a woman who returns to a New England intellectual colony where her manipulative former husband still lives, bringing her back into a social world shaped by academic and artistic relationships. The book is a satire of that mi...