Created by UNESCO 30 years ago, World Book Day is supposed to be a celebration of reading. However, for many parents, it feels more like a celebration of polyester, with frantic searches for costumes ...

For those who prefer their breakfast with a southwestern flair, “The Cowboy Curtis” offers seared flank steak with eggs and ...

Small presses have a long history in Philly, and the current crop are creative and mission-driven. Read our Q&A with Beehive's John O'Neal. One in a series.

From the soccer field to the seminary, Pope Francis’ life story is filled with surprising twists and turns. A selective life ...

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If you had to guess how many hydrangeas were sold in the United States in a year, what would you go for? Maybe 100,000.

“It is a thing the essay loves: to tend, carefully, painstakingly, to the fact of the world,” A. Kendra Greene writes in “No Less Strange or Wonderful,” her new book of essays.

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We can describe the quantum realm using straightforward mathematics – but once we try to translate these ideas into the real ...

Scott Snyder is a prolific comic book writer for famous characters like Batman. He’s known for inventing entirely new comic ...

American Bulk by Emily Mester covers the upper-middle-class desire to consume or be consumed, via personal and critical essays.

Extended conversation with the award-winning Indian writer Pankaj Mishra author of the new book, The World After Gaza: A History.