From Athens to the Abbasids to today’s Anglosphere, creativity and commerce drive greatness Ninth century Baghdad, seat of the Abbasid Caliphate, was designed as a perfect circle to honor the Greek ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?

New York Post columnist Douglas Murray observed that from the moment news of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre and atrocities ...

"Understanding the Middle East requires more than following current events," Patricia Dlamini explains. "To understand the present, we must also explore the deeper layers of the past--how geography ...

Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Strife hits shelves in March 2026 as the fourth installment in his acclaimed Children of Time series. It's an ambitious, multi- ...

That is regrettable, given the enormous effect the war had on the United States, Spain, Cuba and the Philippines, not to ...

Readers’ Favorite calls it “a brilliant start to an epic sci-fi saga,” while BlueInk Review praises its exciting and ...

As the pandemic advances, the characters lock down in various ways, disoriented and stressed out. Their anxieties take over ...

Laurie Hertzel remembers the old building on Portland Avenue in downtown Minneapolis and the space it had carved out just for books. At the time, she was the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s books editor, a ...

Mark Haddon, the best-selling author of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” was an anxious and depressed child. He was afraid of sharks and airplanes, getting sucked into escalators ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our ...

In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...