A sprawling Yiddish-language epic looks back on the lost world of Jewish life in the shtetls of early 20th-century Europe.

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The U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program, running from 2022 through 2025, celebrates the trailblazing contributions of ...

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ”, as a reviewer in the 1920s termed amateur elocutionists.

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A mixed-bag on purpose, the volume spans prose, poetry and drama then looks at the new in an uncertain era of change ...

How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women; By Vanda Krefft Algonquin Books; 279 pp., $29 ...

If Shulamith Firestone’s last work haunts the feminist movement, it may be because it suggests something disturbing about ...

For her upcoming “Nā Mele o Hawai‘i” concert with the Maui Pops Orchestra on March 23, Raiatea Helm will concentrate on songs ...

The best-selling author “got a little emotional” while talking with The Times about the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Listen to the conversation.