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The article discusses the concept of health and illness as universal experiences. Topics include the nature of health anxiety and hypochondria, the evolving medical and cultural understanding of hypochondria, as detailed in Caroline Crampton's book "A Body Made of Glass"; and the impact of hypochondria on patient credibility and the validation of hard-to-diagnose illnesses, pasrticularly those affecting women, such as endometriosis and chronic fatigue.

HITLER'S LAST HOSTAGESLooted Art and the Soul of the Third ReichBy Mary M. Lane In 2012, German authorities broke into a Munich apartment belonging to a reclusive octogenarian named Cornelius [...]

THE UNWANTED America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between By Michael Dobbs On the morning of Nov. 10, 1938, Hedy Wachenheimer rode her bike from her small village of [...]

The article discusses U.S. technology firms known as femtech firms that have business models related to women's reproductive and sexual health. Topics include the relation of the firm Celmatix to infertility treatment, the experiences of Celmatix founder Pieraye Yurttas Beim as a mother, and problems with the scientific basis of products offered by some femtech firms.

WHERE MEMORY LEADSMy LifeBy Saul Friedländer283 pp. Other Press. $24.95. ''People who, like me, lived their childhood under catastrophic circumstances, may have built a 'normal' exterior,'' writes Saul Friedländer, an [...]

In 2004, Andrea Meislin curated an exhibition of Israeli art to coincide with the city's annual Armory Show; since then, she has established her gallery as a brick-and-mortar showcase for [...]

GROUP f.64. Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and the Community of Artists Who Revolutionized American Photography By Mary Street Alinder Illustrated. 399 pp. Bloomsbury. $35. On Oct. 15, 1932, [...]

In the first scene of Tayla Lavie's dark comedy, Zero Motivation, two young women, Zohar and Daffi, board a bus. They settle in beside each other, tuck one earbud each [...]

The Chinese government announced this week that it plans to give two giant pandas to Israel, JTA reports. Israeli zookeepers will first have to build an appropriate habitat to house [...]

The lower house of France's Parliament voted on Tuesday to recognize Palestine as a state, reports the New York Times. France joins several other countries that have voted to recognize [...]

On Monday, Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara bade goodbye to their youngest son, Avner, who was to begin his three years of mandatory military service. The Netanyahus, including Avner's [...]

If school is closed but nobody knows why, does it count as a holiday? That's essentially the koan-esque question currently facing the Montgomery County Board of Education. The Maryland county, [...]

UNFAMILIAR STREETS The Photographs of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler, and Philip-Lorca diCorcia By Katherine A. Bussard Illustrated. 218 pp. Yale University Press. $65. TOUCHING STRANGERS By Richard Renaldi [...]

Sonia Delaunay's paintings and decorative works are a riot of rhythm, movement, and color. In shades of yellow, cerulean blue, cerise, and sea green, the arcs on her canvases and [...]

JEWS IN GOTHAM New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920--2010 By Jeffrey S. Gurock New York University Press, $45. In 1960, Fortune magazine published an article that trumpeted the [...]

Last month, the artist An-My Lê installed fifty-two photographs in the Coast Guard's brand-new headquarters, in Washington, D.C. For federal construction projects, the General Services Administration allots half a per [...]

SHE LEFT ME THE GUN My Mother's Life Before Me By Emma Brockes Illustrated. 298 pp. The Penguin Press. $26.95. Emma Brockes, a reporter for The Guardian, was the only [...]

Artists who make books are as varied as artists who make anything else, and they offer just as many reasons for their fixation. For some it's a documentary form, one [...]

The article talks about the European refugee crisis involving over 2 million refugees and its impact on cities all over Europe. Topics include the use of defunct hotels, abandoned Soviet-era apartment buildings, and old airports at Dachau, Ostfildern and Buchenwald, Germany for refugees, the coverage of migrant movements by Canadian journalist Doug Saunders, and the efforts of architects and designers to provide suitable accommodation for refugees like makeshift villages of shipping containers.

The article offers winter travel tips for Thomas, West Virginia, including skiing at the Canaan Valley Resort, the coffee shop TipTop and the bed-and-breakfast Cooper House.

The article focuses on websites that provide information on art sales and prices. Topics discussed include the websites ArtRank.com, which provides information on artists and their pricing trends based on art gallery data, and Artsy.net, which allows art collectors to browse for art online based on genre and to also order certain works of art online.

Art advisers take their cues from observing which collectors are at which openings, which artists get prestigious residencies, and which auction houses or fairs sell an artist's work. The site is funded by Rivera's other business ventures, including a company that allows people to leverage art for loans and doesn't make money on its own.). [Extracted from the article]