In the same year as America’s founding, Edward Gibbon wrote “Decline and Fall.” 250 years later, it still holds lessons for ...

This summer’s mix includes some sci-fi and fantasy deep cuts, a Native botanist’s meditation on honoring nature, a mycologist’s celebration of fungi, novels set around the world, a memoir from ...

A Year-by-Year Guide for Classical Christian Education. It may seem that a kindergartner, with a backpack that overwhelms her ...

Loosely defined as mysteries written between the two world wars (though there’s some flexibility here), Golden Age mysteries ...

The Marlow Murder Club TV show will soon reach Season 3, but author and series creator Robert Thorogood is already several steps ahead—on the page, at least. Thorogood recently spoke to MASTERPIECE ...

Among the 267 popes who have led the Roman Catholic Church, there have likely been gay men, probably a transgender man or two, fascists, several democrats, sons of popes, dozens of authoritarians and ...

"We cannot lose the influence of religion in our public life without seriously jeopardizing our freedoms." ...

Texas is on the verge of requiring its more than 5 million public school students to study Bible stories, as the state emerges as a leader in a national conservative effort to infuse Christian ...

Beneath all the alienation, "The Catcher in the Rye," which turns 75 this year, has a surprisingly hopeful—and ...

A Song of Ice and Fire has been solidified as a defining work of fiction over the past 30 years. George R.R. Martin’s fantasy book saga ascended into the zeitgeist through an ongoing series of ...

The worker said that he read the ancient historian “because he makes me think.” As though testing him, Wight asked the ...