A set of powerful histories and ideas that explain how the world came to look the way it does today. The article follows the ...

Whether they’re epic fantasies, spiritual foundations, political manifestos, or enduring classics we all pretended to read in ...

Happy holidays, and happy reading! All That We Ask of You Is to Always Be Happy by Bridget Bell (Cavankerry) If there has ...

Women’s Regency fashion was pretty different from the ornate costumes of the 18th century. Dresses seemed to be more relaxed and unstructured. Waistlines went up to right under the breasts, known as ...

Ken Burns is the greatest documentarian of our time. With films such as The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. The envelope, please: After a full year spent reading hundreds of books and meeting regularly to bicker — er, ...

Cue up the international intrigue, including a dicey bit of a U.S. and Canada conflagration and it’s off we go! Penny’s novel ...

An exhibition reckons with the revived legacy of an immigrant artist who created ornate illuminations and scathing ...

Sven Beckert’s epic history of trade identifies the ceaseless generation of wealth as the driving force behind capitalism’s ...

Krishnan Srinivasan’s ‘Kolkata Crimes’ is a set of 7 detective tales full of suspense, intrigue and mystery, which unfold ...

The historians who want to know how our ancestors experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow ...

Humanity’s history, Stewart Brand suggests, can be seen as a long process of upkeep, repair and incremental adjustment.