Pseudo-archaeology has played a big role in constructing mythical histories that feed into imagined pasts that ultimately only ...

Perhaps the fires that devastated Los Angeles in early January will take such platitudes out of circulation, at least for a ...

This month, check out new historical fiction by Pam Jenoff and a horror novel with an adaptation already in the works.

Ambivalent discourses about Nepali political parties are emanating from various sources. More emerge in news portals and ...

There is a certain paradox to the greatest violins. No matter how uniform the testimony of their players and audiences, a skeptic might question their supremacy. After all, these instruments have been ...

Critic-turned-novelist Jonathan Meades on the strangeness of Starmer, poor policing and his drastic cure for London’s ills ...

Earlier personal associations with iconic city monuments strike sad to glad notes ...

We should then have only to include the North in our confederacy . . . and we should have such an empire for liberty as she ...

Colombian coffee has been celebrated for generations. However, the beverage wasn't always an integral part of the country's ...

Essays in Austrian Literature by W G Sebald (Translated from German by Jo Catling) ...

The German brothers’ fairy tales, in which moral laws are suspended and violence abounds, were no stranger than the ...

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...