It is as bitter a piece of social irony as the unhappy marriage in Edith Wharton’s “A Custom of the Country.” I do not know why it should be so, but afsensitive man sacrificed at the altar is always a ...

A Texas man has gone viral after buying a life-size model of actor Henry Cavill. James Robertson-Reavis is no stranger to ...

What Patrick Henry did above all was talk—and get talked about. He astonished his listeners as the most compelling public ...

Oh. It’s the people from the Nobel Peace Prize. Mr President, they say you’re this year’s winner. He has 10 minutes to alert his family and staff before the news goes live to the world. Trump jolts ...

With his tall, thin body and his long arms and legs, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) looked more like a bag of bones than a world-famous Scottish author. It was his eyes, though, which suggested ...

Craig faced a bizarre wave of backlash when he was cast as Bond, yet his 007 tenure became a box office triumph.

Matthiessen’s politics drifted left. He quit the C.I.A. It was clear that he could write. When just out of Yale he sold a ...

In “Capturing Kahanamoku,” the historian Michael Rossi argues that an ugly pseudoscientific movement had its roots in a ...

He was a spy, a crusader, an obsessive advocate for neglected people and places—yet his work was shaped, too, by an inner ...

Blaming the British for the destruction helped persuade some wavering colonists to back the fight for independence. But the ...

Wilson's book is as clever and full of surprises as the novelist to whom it does justice.