Make way, wildebeest, for the kings: it’s been confirmed that about six million antelope move from the southwestern regions ...

Other authors who mean a lot to the musician (and now children’s book writer): Kevyn Aucoin and Hilary Mantel. Karen Russell’s “The Antidote” is set in 1930s Nebraska, when the promising ...

By Dwight Garner How the Movies Made Joan Didion a Great American Writer A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer’s imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by ...

Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar, an ethnic Nuer, of trying to take power by force. Machar escaped Juba, and later rebels loyal to him came close to capturing ...

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His book, a marvellous accounting that covers many moments of high drama, also usefully lays out the many mechanisms of repression that made the Red Scare possible, from executive orders and ...

March 11, 2025 • Willow Winsham's new book on witches, past and present, offers a fun, fast, well researched historical summary that is also a stunning work of art. February 26, 2025 ...