In the era of desegregation, a passionate minister and carefree teenagers tried to change Martinsville. A new book tells the story of Christ Episcopal Church.

Like Proverbs, the Book of Ecclesiastes belongs to the category of wisdom literature, a description of which was given by the present writer in ...

The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth” inspired culinary luminaries like Alice Waters and Samin Nosrat. Does it matter that ...

The new book arrives just weeks after Anna Wintour announced she was departing her editor-in-chief role at Vogue, and is available to buy now.

An adaptation of her 19th-century-set novel “Washington Black” is streaming on Hulu. But she’s not totally comfortable with ...

Authored by Luke, Acts is the first chapter after the four Gospels. Moses is cited numerous times. I call him the “north star ...

Some books are timeless. Others are for a particular time. Here Are Your Gods is both. So, it is personally challenging and ...

Ed Park, a Pultizer Prize finalist for his last sprawling novel, wrote an interlocking series of stories for his follow-up, ...

In Michael Grynbaum's latest book, magazine moguls Si Newhouse Jr. and Alexander Liberman preside over the creation of a ...

It was a bit of a shock on Thursday when Chief Justice John Roberts announced at the end of the session that the court would next sit on Friday and “at that time we will announce all remaining ...

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“Ecstasy” is a work of horror-she based it on an ancient Greek play, “The Bacchae” by Euripides. She discovered that play when she was studying Greek during the eighth grade, she went on to earn a ...