The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States (which keeps trying to hoard the name for itself). The British historian ...

Would the end of U.S. and Western dominance really be so bad?” ventures one scholar of international relations. “It need not ...

The Supreme Court handed LGBT consequential losses this term. Regarding the June 28 front-page article “ Maryland parents win ...

In “The Once and Future World Order,” by Amitav Acharya, and “The Golden Road,” by William Dalrymple, our best hope might be that history repeats itself.

In an account that reads more like a spy thriller than a political history, British author Charlie English recounts the story of how the CIA smuggled books behind the Iron Curtain ...

The science fiction and fantasy author Martha Wells recommends her favorite novels that will transport you to other worlds.

A seventy-million-dollar renovation beautifully presents the museum’s non-Western art—even if doubts remain about whether all ...

Kyra Davis Lurie's 'The Great Mann,' a Black reimagining of 'The Great Gatsby,' combines a family story with a little-known part of L.A. history.

With the epic sweep and palace intrigue of “Game of Thrones,” new 10-part Hungarian miniseries “Rise of the Raven” had its ...

A Yiddish translation of “Arabian Nights” sounds like the set-up to a Borscht Belt joke. Yet, as a recent finalist for a ...

The New Science of Smell by Jonas Olofsson (William Collins) Don’t underestimate the power of your nose, urges olfactory researcher Olofsson, who is on a mission to elevate the status of smell in an ...

The ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides is considered by many to be the father of pharmacology for authoring De ...