Benjamin was a generally unhappy, unlucky and unwell man. He was also the most original thinker of modernity, obsessed with ...

"You better hop back in your car or I'm going to issue you with a move-on notice," hollers the highway patrolman in my ...

Made with ground beef and seasonings, the loose meat sandwich hails from Iowa. The story of its delicious rise to stardom ...

The longtime Texas lieutenant governor, and member of a publishing dynasty, was known for his skill at wielding power at the Capitol and his love of government process.

The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery and Murder' is as suspenseful and dire as the Disney movie is idyllic.

Pick any recurring theme of cricket history - morality, prejudice, technophobia, Nasser Hussain's predilection for comedy dismissals - and there will be an lbw story to tell. "This law," wrote the ...

When Chris Leonard moved to the Los Angeles area roughly a decade ago, he knew exactly where he wanted to call home: the Sunset Strip. When Leonard arrived on the West Coast, he settled into a West ...

through six decades of Chinese history as war, famine and chance bring them to Hong Kong, Taiwan, New York, California and many places — and circumstances — along the way. Ballantine Books It ...

In Haldane’s biography, A Dominant Character, Samanth Subramanian quotes an apocryphal story about him. A journalist, probably on a slow news day, called Haldane to ask him what his studies ...

She has an entire chapter, Surah 19, dedicated to her and her history. In his book What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam ... “The Qur’anic stories and sayings of Jesus which “he” narrated were ...

As we prepare to turn the corner into 2025, poetry is in the spotlight this week, with new books of verse from Percival ... rapt attention to the fact that history is, fundamentally, storytelling.