In a maximum-security facility in upstate New York, students tackled Samuel Richardson’s “Clarissa” and Tolstoy’s “War and ...

The Village Voice remembers the art and provocations of the underground comix genius, Vaughn Bode, on the 50th anniversary of his death.

Starmer, Reeves and Davie find themselves in hot water. Paul Connew reviews how the media has covered the crises confronting ...

In the titular essay, he chooses Kumbhakarna as his hero of laziness. “In essence ... I suspect that the etymological ...

Superman arrived on Earth a refugee from a dying world, adopted by farmers in the American heartland. But as the Man of Steel ...

Sarah-Ann Shaw, the pioneering Boston journalist who died last year at age 90, believed deeply in the power of education to change lives and uplift communities. A devoted supporter of public libraries ...

Ball, a free man of color, opened a one-room photo studio in Cincinnati in 1845, but the business soon folded. He honed his ...

Welcome to our selection of some of the biggest – and most colourful – stories in Switzerland over the past seven days.

Manley, a great grandson of Sean Mitchell, a former Irish Volunteer leader in Athlone, who later became OC of the Cork No 1 ...

Avi Shlaim is one of Israel’s greatest historians. In his latest work, Shlaim excoriates the genocidal violence that Israel ...

The early characterisation of Superman chimes with a further British connection to Superman, of course. Co-creator Jerry ...

René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?