The American mainstream media may have some ability to get away from government policy talking points when covering domestic ...

Natasha Rego interviews the British anthropologist who first proposed the idea that humans can maintain no more than 150 ...

Fatima Es-Slaoui Collins, a library assistant in the children’s department at Otis Library, shelving books. Muslims see ... the fast at sunset, whereas Shias will break the fast 10 to 15 minutes ...

Matthew Goodman tells the true story of Kate Bonnefous and her Jewish friend Etta Shiber, who rescued Allied soldiers trapped ...

Sarah Chihaya examines our obsession with books — why they sustain us, how they perhaps cage us, if there can be too many — ...

Prime Video's "The Wheel of Time" is based on a 15-book series. Season three, which premieres on Thursday, adapts book four, ...

A new book by the historian Linda Gordon considers seven social movements that transformed the country — not all of them for the better. In “The Fisherman’s Gift,” a man finds a lost child ...

The Tibetan Buddhist leader said the choice of a successor should be made according to traditional practices and that lamas, ...