Now, blood is just part of the canvas. Red strokes in his silent art. He slices through flesh and bone with the same ...

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...

Dating apps and sex-segregated online communities are intensifying resentment between the genders, while left-wing theorists increasingly adopt family abolition as a rallying cry. Is there a way out ...

As America marks 250 years, the remarkable friendship between Lafayette and George Washington still resonates across the Atlantic.

John Steinbeck is now most famous as author of The Grapes of Wrath (1938), a novel about agricultural workers displaced from ...

A group of artists gathered at a hotel on the Côte d’Azur in 1937. A new book by Anna Thomasson captures the art and ...

Five books that span time and place, from the music scene in 80s London to the philosophical scene of Ancient Rome.

Mick Jackson’s 1984 film Threads endures as the most devastating depiction of nuclear war in apocalyptic cinema. Its ...

America still needs France.

Jason Prokowiew’s "War Boys" braids the story of his father, Walter, who survived as a young boy taken in by a Nazi soldier ...

Long before Band of Brothers, Combat! changed WWII television with realistic storytelling, authentic military detail, and ...

Shahrnush Parsipur, the Iranian novelist whose work transformed the female experience, history and magical realism into acts ...