Chinese author Fang Fang posted notes online while being quarantined in Wuhan. They became Wuhan Diary. She talks with us ...
A few weeks ago, while reading a book on the history of Charleston, I came across a tantalizing reference to Schuyler ...
As the final generation of Holocaust survivors passes on, the books will remain as "material survivors, as witnesses." ...
With his second fiction novel, “Bootleggers, Bullets & Brothers in the Kingdom,” Jordan tells the story of young man, Joey Ross, in 1932, and a midnight run that changes his ...
Now, he has written a short history of British architecture, aimed at the "intelligent layman". As Jenkins takes us through the various styles (Palladianism, the gothic revival, etc.), it sometimes ...
Rochelle "Shelly" Dahmer writes an illustrated biography about her husband's slain grandfather, Vernon Dahmer, with 9- to 12-year-olds in mind.
In “Embers of the Hands,” historian Eleanor Barraclough digs deep into the ways that the Vikings loved, traveled and even ...
The Noapara police station in West Bengal holds a unique historical connection to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, who was briefly ...
Barely a kilometre-and-a-half from Shyamnagar railway station in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district lies the unassuming Noapara police station, which holds a unique historical connection to ...
A fascinating book encompassing memories of a naval officer along with his rise from rags as a mountain boy in Kohat, titled 'From a Mountain Boy to a Destroyer's Captain,' was launched on Wednesday ...
Serampore or Shrirampur, call it what you may, this little historic town in Bengal is a treasure trove for those interested ...
Dante’s Divine Comedy, a ‘biography’ of the Italian poet’s masterpiece by Joseph Luzzi, brims with facts but lacks any starry-eyed wonder ...