William Henry Seward and his wife, Frances, shared antislavery convictions, but his career imposed great stress on their ...

Magnitude is a continuous theme all across Alaska. Not only is it the largest U.S. state by land area, but it also has seven ...

The first work of theater devoted to the life of Henry Christophe was staged in 1821, only a year or so after Christophe took his own life. Since that time, as the brilliant Yale historian Marlene L.

From a suicide-bombing comedy by a former prime minister to OJ Simpson’s ‘confessions’, these works should never have seen ...

This fine biography does that most rare of things: it brings to life, on the printed page, exactly how Tommie Potts felt the music that so defines him. And why ...

Generally speaking, seventh grade isn’t the highlight of anyone’s life—and condolences to those for whom it was. But it is especially problematic for Auggie, the central character of the new musical ...

In his book “Human History on Drugs,” Kelly provides an “utterly scandalous but entirely truthful look at history under the ...

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook After months of waiting, it’s finally time for the Absolute Universe to come together with a ...

Books about Marcel Duchamp, Frida Kahlo, Alma Thomas, and more, plus critical studies of lipstick and complaining, are on our ...

Mitch Wieland, professor of creative writing and co-founder of the Boise State MFA creative writing program, received a ...

God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation'—about the famous Scopes “monkey trial,” is timely. Then again, church-state conflicts simply never go away in the United States.