A new history by Luke Barr chronicles the innovations, excesses and chauvinism of the French chefs who spawned a revolution ...
People in the Charleston area often tell the stories of Septima Clark and of Judge Waties Waring, who appear in this volume as powerful, relentless warriors. Esau Jenkins and Bernice Robinson now can ...
Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum heralds spring with In Bloom, an exhibition that interrogates our fascination with plants ...
The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and ...
In his new book, Glorious Failure, Robert Ivermee shakes the notion that French colonialism in India was benign, and implicates France in the Indian Ocean slave trade ...
Things are omitted, elided, misunderstood or simply unavailable to the author. Lies are told. Biography traffics in ...
When looking at an abstract work of art, ask yourself what it makes you feel rather than what it might represent, suggests ...
Auteurs like Christopher Nolan and James Cameron surely rank among the four best, most iconic and influential action movie directors ever.
Universities exist to pursue ideas wherever they may lead. That mission cannot survive if professors must fear, as many now do, that a lecture, research project or public statement that someone in ...
John Wrory Ficklin was 7 when he learned that his father, the son of a slave, was important. It was 1963, and the nation was ...
Set in 1939 as London finds itself on the brink of war, our narrator is the bright, ambitious, working-class Iris Hawkins, ...
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