There are two obvious reasons why history films can’t achieve perfect realism. First, there are simply limits to what is ...

Amazon's "Best Books of the Year" list is here. The Top 10 for 2024 include dark thrillers, American classic retellings and ...

Percival Everett’s “James” has received yet another literary nomination. Everett’s reworking of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures ...

The weight of 2024’s history books concentrates, as often in recent years, on the last century or so – though with revelatory ...

With his latest book-length essay, "A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys and Other Wild Places" (Timber Press), Brown rises to a level of acute observation ...

This year, leading thinkers asked how humanity became so fragile, what other life could exist in the universe, and whether it ...