Michael Palmer’s trust in the generative power that emerges out of silence for poetry runs counter to a deep strain of pessimism throughout The Laughter of the Sphinx. Already a member? Sign in here.

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GIZA PLATEAU, Egypt — The newly restored Sphinx has neither the nose nor the beard that once graced its massive stone head. It hasn’t had a complete set of facial features at least since an Islamic ...

Buried beneath the shifting sands of the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes is a story of Biblical proportions. In 1923, legendary filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille built an epic Egyptian dreamscape on California’s ...

The rapt audience fell silent as 17-year-old Nygel Witherspoon took the stage. As the cello player performed Boccherini's "Cello Concerto in B-flat Major," many people seemed entranced. One older man ...