Jo Harkin’s novel takes up the true story of the last act of the Wars of the Roses—and the child who was manipulated into a ...

In “The Once and Future World Order,” by Amitav Acharya, and “The Golden Road,” by William Dalrymple, our best hope might be ...

Jim Chalmers, Andrew Leigh and Gavin Newsom are among the high-ranking politicians reading and sharing Abundance – a book ...

Then the flood swept over.” Of immense symbolic importance, Eridu was also home to the largest temple dedicated to Enki, the god of water and wisdom, a key deity of the Sumerian pantheon.

The hip-hop group sang about “Da Mystery of Chessboxin’” in 1993. The sport of chessboxing actually stems from the work of Enki Bilal, a celebrated French-Yugoslavian comic-book author, who introduced ...

In the mood for monsters and mythological heroes? Look no further than Rick Riordan's fun, fast-paced Percy Jackson series, which follows the adventures of young demigod (half mortal, half Greek god) ...

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So vividly drawn is Stephen King’s fiction that it’s offered the basis for some 50 feature films. For half a century, since ...

Susan Choi’s new book, Flashlight, considers the evolution of rage.

The biologist at the center of Maria Reva’s metafictional “Endling” prefers snails to the company of humans.

Fact and fiction blurs together in Maria Reva's beautifully chaotic 'Endling,' a novel set in Ukraine before the Russian ...

At cross-cultural gatherings in Bethlehem, West Bank, groups of children and adults turn to a 67-year-old, colorful comic ...