In 1836, Charles Dickens hooked the good people of England on a story about a traveling men’s group. Published over two years ...
Author Andreas Malm has been denied entry to the United Kingdom on the grounds that his “presence in the UK is not considered to be conducive to the public good,” according to The Guardian and Al ...
Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and ...
Magician and escape artist Harry Houdini was quite the collector, filling warehouses and his Harlem home with books, posters, ...
Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture—together with the KSE Foundation, the Ukrainian Book Institute, and the International Book ...
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week "A vivid, sometimes grisly, sometimes enraging portrait of 19th-century British society ... Probing and excellent." ...
Recently, at the end of a particularly bruising year, another professor and I found ourselves loitering together, draped in ...
Women’s historical fiction and historical romance are currently more popular than ever, but women’s historical nonfiction? Not so much. Despite being a biographer, when choosing books for ...
What greater magic can there be than the signature trick of all leaf magicians when they extract a rare gas from the ...
In Rebecca Perry’s Booker shortlisted May We Feed the King, a woman who suffers from a loneliness, its source purposefully kept fuzzy, is devoted to her remarkably niche work of reconstructing history ...
Sarah Fritz is a musicologist, mezzo-soprano, and music historian who’s contributed to the New York Times, given pre-concert ...
For the past few years, my father and I have been writing a book together, a memoir told in his first-person voice. This has ...
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