More than just a place to borrow books, modern libraries have reinvented themselves to fit into the digital age. One library ...

If you want to understand the past, look at the railways, writes the author of a new illustrated guide to British rail ...

By Jennifer Szalai “Playing Possum,” a new book by the philosopher Susana Monsó, explores the mysteries of grief and mourning in the animal world ... Jacobs Two new books by psychologists ...

Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying. By Alexandra Jacobs ...

Australia is facing external threat plus internal polarisation and demoralisation on a scale unlike anything since the end of ...

Christ, the King of peace, breaks down the dividing walls within our hearts (Eph. 2:14). But how do we as Orthodox Christians ...

In an interview, Gifford talks about her time in Oklahoma and what led up to her coming back to be honored by the Annie ...

Pieces on Russia frequently cite Winston Churchill's well-known epigram: '… a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'. The lazy formulation reflects the former British politician’s Kiplingesque ...

Auguste Rodin’s contemplative bronze “The Thinker,” a cast of which sits in one corner outside the National Museum of Western Art ... was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2016.

A special report produced with Smithsonian Channel The latest finds hint at the great potential of the ancient ... year-old texts from the early days of Western civilization A project to scan ...