The British Museum should return the ancient treasures to Greece for the sake of art, not nationalism.

On the higher slopes of Mount Olympus, blurbs are a way by which the gods speak to each other in code, with the whole world ...

The arch dam, as the curved type is known, is effectively an arched bridge turned on its side, with the centre of the arch ...

Nearly a year in, the independent body tasked with keeping city officials above board has yet to find anything amiss.

Writers can do crazy things in quest of a blurb. When Norman Mailer finished his third novel, The Deer Park, he sent a copy ...

If I could raise my arms, I’d be doing a Nazi salute right now. If I could walk, I’d be goose-stepping. After all, it’s ...

Being religious is a bit like learning to play soccer, says New York Times columnist and bestselling author Ross Douthat. You ...

But after his fall, beginning in his first days in the hospital, Kureishi started to write furiously. A flurry of social-media posts earned him sympathy and admiration for his truth-telling. Over two ...

While few recall her film works today, The Girl on a Motorcycle, released in the “revolutionary year” 1968 as my old colleague Christopher Hitchens always described it, has an obscure but significant ...