When Prof. John W. Boyer published his landmark book on the history of the University of Chicago in 2015, his work gave a valuable new window into UChicago’s past. But for Boyer, a renowned historian ...

Twenty years ago on August 14, 2005, a Boeing 737-300 took off at 9.07am from Larnaca airport with 115 passengers and six ...

For Sorokin styles himself the flamboyant ingrate heir to the Russian literary tradition. Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov write ...

This August bank holiday weekend, history comes alive at the majestic Belvoir Castle with a spectacular 1940s Afternoon Tea Festival set to delight visitors of all ages on Sunday 31st August.

As a 7-year-old boy in Hiroshima, Howard Kakita was hoping to catch the vapor trail of a B-29 bomber. A sudden blast knocked ...

From original documentaries to comedies, dramas, and thrillers, here are the best movies to stream on Netflix right now in 2025.

Substack has a lot of big-name writers, some of whom the platform courted aggressively with advances when it began scaling up around 2021 and 2022. (Substack was first founded in 2017.) Acclaimed ...

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I saw ​ the end of it then, I mean the end of it as it was, as my mother told the story of my father’s sudden deafness. The turn towards the deer in the snow, two pairs of black eyes, the earplugs ...

In his book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, writer, journalist and commentator Peter Beinart argues that the destruction of Gaza might prove to be a turning point in Jewish history.

Thriftyland101 in Anaheim, California isn’t just a secondhand shop – it’s a portal to countless parallel universes of nostalgia, each one contained within a forgotten toy, a vintage jacket, or a rare ...