This year, we’ll be blessed with new novels by Ann Patchett, Colson Whitehead, Andrew Sean Greer, and so many more celebrated ...

World War II led C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien to infuse their early experiments in fantasy with a sense of moral urgency.

The War of Independence in East Cork' makes an important contribution to the understanding of what occurred in East Cork ...

For Ganes, teaching the Holocaust through art is deeply personal. Her parents were Jewish Holocaust survivors who fled Europe ...

Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is a timeless guide to strategy, leadership, and decision-making. This simplified breakdown reveals ...

Orwell wrote an autobiographical essay, Why I Write, in 1946, in which he pointed out four reasons why writers write. The first is sheer egoism—to express oneself, to be known to all, and to be ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Cheryl W. Thompson about her book, "Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen," ...

A new history by Carol Woolton describes how designs rendered in inexpensive materials became a popular accessory genre.

The turning point of his career occurred in 1951, when famed Montreal gallery owner Max Stern tracked the painter down where ...

How does she do it, grip each new generation with her thrillers? On her 50th death anniversary, we add it all up: truth, toxins, an unerring eye for detail.

“Partition is an important but overlooked chapter of world history, especially in South Asia, a region from where many of our ...