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The ‘anti-intellectualism’ of American life and the ‘paranoid style’ of American politics have become catch phrases. How reliable was the mandarin scholar who coined them?

Edward and Bella are back at last, again lighting up their twilight world of undying teenage desire.

‘So let me get this straight: You’re upset because someone you don’t know might not like a version of you that doesn’t really exist.’

Those with leprosy were quarantined for life and lost the ability to vote, marry or maintain custody of children.

The author of ‘Slaves in the Family’ returns with a personal history of New Orleans during Reconstruction.

The realities of the 20th century needed a different fictional form, she thought—one that showed the opacity and mystery of human action. Sartre approved.

How do we celebrate a power that produces not only butterflies, whales and sycamore trees but also hurricanes, plagues and cancer?

Some of the greatest achievements of human culture have been built on the crushed bodies of insects.

A childless but hopeful couple become trapped in a Victorian ghost story set in a grand hotel above the Arctic Circle.

From the author, most recently, of the story collection ‘Animal Spirit.’

Elsa Hart’s historical mystery, set in the 18th century, concerns a collector of rarities murdered amid his cabinets of wonder.

Millions of annual visitors wagered hundreds of millions of dollars in the town’s casinos. Not bad for an industry that was, legally speaking, illegal.

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Japan believed that only the vanquished can decide when to stop fighting. The bomb gave the U.S. unprecedented persuasive power.

At least half of all Americans belong to no religious tradition but borrow from several. What happened to ‘secularization’?

A real-life Harvard melodrama, featuring a feminist scholar, a con man and a papyrus purporting to be the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife.

When your home doubles as your office, work can bleed into what should be personal time. The trick is in establishing effective routines.

As supreme commander, Dwight Eisenhower had to make the Allied nations’ militaries act as one. In peacetime, he worked to unite his own country behind the postwar order.

For more than 150 years, an annual volume has recorded the wonders of cricket with meticulous care and quirky affection.