Gamerman delves into these issues, and the often-colorful characters driving the story. There’s Jarrett and his dutiful ...

I started to scan the front of the file. It had the usual paperclip with the picture of the suspect attached. I looked at ...

With that simple phrase, Jack London bound his legacy forever to boxing’s perennial expression of white resentment, the ...

An accomplished historian and author of "The Impeachers," Wineapple takes her time setting up the story. In a leisurely manner—perhaps too leisurely—her narrative encompasses Prohibition, the Ku Klux ...

Despite her insecurities, her friend Félix (Pablo Pauly) convinces her to leave France and accept a literary residency in ...

Here’s what, I believe, neither Huxley, nor Orwell, nor any of us saw coming: It’s not a matter of government using technology to enslave the people. It is a matter of technology using the government ...

Many nights, Spooks turn on their shortwave radios and drift through the frequencies. On any given night, one can hear amateur radio stations broadcasting church sermons, utility traffic for aircrafts ...

In February of 1932, William Faulkner finished the manuscript for his seventh novel. He had spent the past three years writing the works that would make him immortal — The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay ...

Charlie Chaplin made audiences laugh, but he also made us feel. His films often balanced delicately, as poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti observes, on “a fine line between sentiment and sentimentality.” ...