From the streets of Harlem to Vietnam to Hollywood, these stories correct the record and spotlight lesser-known heroes for ...

Growing up, journalist Michael Visontay knew that his Hungarian-born father had survived Auschwitz (while losing his own mother there), and that the family had ultimately emigrated to Australia after ...

In 2024, when Worcester Youth Cooperatives organizer Addison Turner began putting together a pop-up bookstore focused on ...

Linguist and Columbia University professor John McWhorter is a podcast host, the author of 20 books, and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. His new book, Pronoun Trouble, explores the recent ...

In March 1984, customs officials at the port of Swinoujscie, in northwestern Poland, spotted something suspicious about a ...

This is Naipaulesque writing. With its wide scope and rigorous attention to detail, The Village of One might well be the most discerning history book about modern T&T, and undoubtedly the best ...

By Alissa Nutting In his new book, David Szalay offers unvarnished scenes from a lonely, rags-to-riches life. By Dwight Garner Two new books use divergent styles to look at mind control ...

Archaeologists show some of the first people to settle the ancient continent of Sahul arrived on the shores of present-day ...

Travis Gettys is a senior editor for Raw Story based in northern Kentucky. He previously worked as a web editor for WLWT-TV and a contributing writer for the Kentucky Enquirer, and he also wrote ...

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including books, television, video games, and theater, and pairs these previously published essays with two new ones about the history of criticism and the current state of the art form.

The U.S. military unearthed data about rising sea levels in the early 1950s — and has been closely watching this threat to ...