In the unsentimental memoir “The Golden Hour,” Matthew Specktor ponders, among others, the father who succeeded in a ...

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The Hungarian capital’s Jewish community hoped the worst Nazi persecutions would bypass them. The terror still came.

Here's a selection of our all-time favorite kids' book series, with reviews of either the first installment or the whole series. For even more ideas, check out our lists Best Book Series for Early ...

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Among 381 books that have been removed from the library at the U.S. Naval Academy is Maya Angelou’s best-seller, “I Know Why ...

For that, remarkably, is Mailer's "poetic truth": that Hitler was born evil, conceived in the presence of the Devil and in the dark stew of a family history of incest, much as the baby Jesus, ...

As a descendant of German immigrants, from college on I devoured histories of the rise of fascism to grasp how the cultured ...

There are no overt religious references in Superman comics. But over eight decades, he’s been viewed as a divine entity, a savior figure — his sacrifice Christ-like, his will to lead as strong as ...