The brilliant scholar, writer, and postmodernist art critic Thomas McEvilley died in March of this year, but his scholarship may yet spawn a renaissance in our understanding of the ancient world. His epic work, The Shape of…

Jed Perl at the New Republic, on the Asia Society’s ongoing exhibition, The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan: Art of Gandhara, Nearly two thousand years ago, in the stark terrain where modern day Afghanistan and Pakistan meet,…