Ken Burns's new documentary achieves a tone that is unmistakably Burns: measured, atmospheric, at times elegiac and always ...

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

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

Principal Ashok Sunatkari, who took charge in 2021, told HT that the collection included more than 10,000 books belonging to ...

The German poet’s dauntingly eclectic accomplishments were founded on a tireless interrogation of how a life should be lived.

Culture, “at least when it comes to food, is really just a fancy word for your mother,” Michael Pollan wrote in his ...

He translated nearly 30 books, including novels by Georges Perec, a master of linguistic games, and Ismail Kadare.

In The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco describes a labyrinthine monastic library large enough to lose oneself in. The novelist ...

Chances are fair that you’ve heard about this new American Revolution documentary series that has announced itself like Paul Revere’s midnight ride. You might have even ingested a think piece or two ...

The six-part, 12-hour series aims to bring depth and complexity to the founding of the United States by using 400 first-person accounts.

In “The American Revolution,” an illustrated companion to a new documentary series, the conflict is global, gruesome and tearing us apart. By Ted Widmer Ted Widmer is the author of “Lincoln on the ...