A ghostly ferry makes passages between coexisting ""different Earths""; a 20th-century man describes his impact on the Civil War, brought about by time-machine tricks; and Mozart, Thomas Jefferson and ...

Edwin Frank is somewhat of a legend. The editorial director of New York Review Books and founder of the New York Review Books Classics series, his discernment has helped shape highbrow literary tastes ...

Learn about artists who pushed boundaries and explored color for color’s sake Alexandra Loske The Impressionist movement of the latter nineteenth century proved a catalyst for changing not only how we ...

Fairfield University has decided — without asking faculty, library staff, or students — to throw away at least 10,000 books from the top floor of the DiMenna-Nyselius campus library. Without time for ...

Lesson 1: “Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy.” The principle of conformity prevails. The advice is: “Do not obey in advance.” Power hungry rulers become ruthless and reckless. Lesson 2: ...

In the 1970s, my parents and all the Jewish parents I knew had what I came to call the Jewish Bookshelf. On it sat “The Source” by James Michener, “Exodus” by Leon Uris, “The Chosen” by Chaim Potok, ...