As New York and Philadelphia became hubs for publishing in the United States, there was a need to sell more books to a ...

The two longest stories, “The Undefeated” and “Fifty Grand,” and the closing piece, “Now I Lay Me,” are weightier. I ...

If the new fall book season looks overwhelming — Al Pacino’s memoirs, and a new Haruki Murakami epic? — if you’re about to ...

A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead. Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pampered, swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do. Oh stay, three lives in one flea ...

Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research site at Los Alamos, New Mexico, named the site Trinity after a poem by John Donne that he had shared with his ...

Mr. Nady’s innovations with cordless mics and guitars in the 1970s was soon adopted by the biggest names in rock including ...

An ex-soldier, alcoholic, and newspaper editor, John Newman Edwards spent the years after Confederate general Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse searching for ways to venerate the ...

John Adams expected great things from his eldest son, John Quincy. "You came into life with advantages which will disgrace you if your success is mediocre. ... And if you do not rise to the head ...

Tim Walz said Wednesday that “I need to be clearer” after misstatements and exaggerations about his experiences and biography have created a distraction for Democrats weeks before the election.

John McEnroe won three Wimbledon titles -- 1981, 1983 and 1984. John McEnroe was a winner and a whiner, a super talent nicknamed Superbrat. A lefthander with all the strokes, he never felt a need ...

tremendous biography, “John Lewis: A Life,” the source for the background mentioned above. At Nashville’s American Baptist Theological Seminary, under the guidance of the divinity student ...

The beauty of a game of Werewolf lies in the treachery. In this film adaptation, the director focuses on mild comedy and tedious action instead. By Calum Marsh “Fanatical,” an eye-popping film ...