Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

As "The Great Gatsby" marks its centennial, Long Island's Gold Coast continues to serve as a living testament to the novel's ...

Fluoridated drinking water has been hailed as one of the top 10 public health achievements of the 20th century by the Centers ...

San Francisco-based Foster Gwin Gallery has been a bastion of historically important art, from antiquity to today.

Malcolm in the Middle fans are gearing up for the TV reboot – which was announced nearly two decades after the final episode ...

From the column: "(What) may work in a coddled classroom, where the utmost goal is to not hurt a student’s self-esteem, ...

A winner of top awards in his country, he drew the attention of European and American critics. The prime minister said he ...

I’ve been an Ernest Hemingway aficionado since my teens, so I was pleased to read the Library of America’s collection of the ...

The late author’s “Wolf Hall” trilogy, Barrett writes, uses details from Thomas Cromwell’s life as “nucleation sites around ...

One hundred years after Flannery O' Connor's birth, she has been miscast at two extremes, either as a racist or as a saint.

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.

The current American attitudes in the light of US history ...