The older I get, the less I know. Isn’t that supposed to be the other way around?

Thanksgiving is one of those few national holidays when a semi-religious sentiment is allowed. It peeks through in reply to two obvious questions: Thanksgiving to whom for what? In search of an answer ...

In “Four Points of the Compass,” Jerry Brotton explores the disorienting, dizzying history of our relationship to direction.

Our lives basically change in three ways; through the people we meet, the places we travel, and the books we read. I made ...

The need for chronic reassurance is stoked by repeated attempts to gain it, so letting go, rather than controlling, tends to ...

A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers ...

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David Ehrlich is the Reviews Editor and Head Film Critic at IndieWire. Based in Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife, their two young children, and a crushing amount of anxiety that he treats ...

Emmy Rossum, Zoe Winters, and Motell Foster star in Amy Berryman’s play, WALDEN, directed by Whitney White, opening ...

Amy Berryman and Julia May Jonas invoke and gut renovate Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller (not to mention Thoreau).

Located in Macon, Ga., Mercer University Press has been publishing great books in the fields of Southern studies, religion, and philosophy for 45 years, since 1979.

The New Zealand novelist Catherine Chidgey ought to be much more celebrated in this country than she is. Do not be put off by the fact that The Axeman’s Carnival (Europa, £14.99) is narrated by ...