A new biography deconstructs some of the most persistent myths around Gertrude Stein’s legacy.

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Mark Z. Danielewski has returned with “Tom’s Crossing,” a 1,200-page western that is both more accessible than his earlier ...

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A new play, "Here There are Blueberries," is running at the Detroit Public Theatre. The drama is based on the true story of a ...

With Operation Barbarossa, the forces of the Third Reich commenced Hitler’s plan to destroy the Soviet Union and conquer its ...

A new study scanned more than 25 million novels written over the course of a century to find out which cities were the most written about ...

“The witness – a tall, 16-year-old boy with a child-like face – recounts his sad story as if he were an old man”, she noted ...

In “Motherland,” the journalist Julia Ioffe charts the Russian campaign to emancipate women — and the country’s failure to ...

For pure escapism, there’s nothing quite like historical fiction. These vividly imagined novels transport you back to another ...

The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza was expected to reopen Monday to allow Palestinians stranded abroad to return home, according to a statement from the Palestinian embassy in Cairo.