I have mentioned before in this column the etching I once saw in a house in Ireland where a child lay on a bed dying. The ...

The Hammer Museum at UCLA presents the first museum exhibition inspired by Alice Coltrane’s life and legacy, “Alice Coltrane, ...

Jerusalem Demsas: You’ve probably heard the name Horace Mann. He was a 19th-century reformer who championed the abolition of ...

Justin Newland's novels blend thrilling historical adventure with elements of magical realism and speculative fiction.

Colonel Henry Steel Olcott was famously denounced as an “unmitigated rascal” by the New York Times in 1871. In Sri Lanka, however, he is still remembered as the revered legend of Buddhist revival—and, ...

But it was the Romans who developed a working model of checks and balances. The constitution of the Roman republic was ...

Light Heavyweight title challenger Anthony Smith announced a couple of weeks ago that he wants to fight one more time before ...

A reader takes a whimsical view toward the president’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

Saikat Majumdar, a professor of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University, is a writer whose works delve deep into ...

Simmons, is a novel by the screenwriter of the 1971 movie of the same name -- the first to be called “folk horror” ...

In this lively and engaging book, Margaret Jacob, one of the most distinguished scholars of the Enlightenment, navigates a complex topic, over which there has been much debate and considerable ...