Tim Brinkhof

Tim Brinkhof

Tim Brinkhof

Tim Brinkhof is a Dutch-born, New York-based journalist reporting on art, history, and literature. He studied early Netherlandish painting and Slavic literature at New York University, worked as an editorial assistant for Film Comment magazine, and has written for Esquire, Film & History, History Today, and History News Network. 

a drawing of a man sitting on top of a chair.
Mansa Musa, perhaps history's richest man, claims he ascended the throne of Mali after his predecessor sailed west and never came back. Could he have made it to the New World?
a painting of a man and a woman playing instruments.
500 sheep were slaughtered to produce the 2,060 pages of the "Codex Amiatinus," a Latin translation of the Bible.
a drawing of a clown wearing a red and blue hat.
Rather than sending serial killer art to auctions, it should be sent to abnormal psychologists for research.
Painting of Dorian Gray
You can learn a lot about life through literature's most unrespectable and heinous characters.
brandenburg gate
"The Man in the High Castle" may be the most beloved alternate history book, but it is not the most historically accurate.
a close up of a carving on a wall.
Glimpse into the ancient Maya empire through the writing of its own inhabitants.