The Castle of Otranto is c onsidered the first supernatural English novel and also the first gothic novel. It describes ...

Peter Green, who has died in Iowa City aged 99, spent the second half of his life in America as a classical scholar, notably ...

Now finally published in the UK, Barbara Kingsolver’s Holding the Line looks at the 1983 Phelps Dodge strike through the women’s eyes ...

The Polish Blue and Criminal Police in the Holocaust; Living among the Dead; Irena’s Gift; and Holocaust Heroines.

The result, “Revenge of the Tipping Point,” is a genre bender: self-help without the practical advice, storytelling without the literariness, nonfiction without the vital truths, entertainment without ...

The Message” marks his re-entry as a public intellectual determined to wield his moral authority, especially regarding Israel ...

While ancient India’s reach is well-known, Dalrymple reframes the discourse in 'The Golden Road: How Ancient India ...

The ashram trust — it has a hundred odd workers — has been carrying out philanthropic work across Bangladesh, in sync with ...

Willi Frischauer—Houghfon Mifflin ($3.50). Dachau concentration camp's "last remaining incinerator of original Nazi ...

What makes someone courageous? Is courage a mandated act — a necessary reaction to a set of circumstances not worth ...

Royal biographer explains why people ‘behaved so oddly’ around the late Queen - Craig Brown spoke about his biography at the ...