The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima is believed, by some estimates, to have killed as many as 146,000 people, once injuries, ...

John Christie envisaged Wagner’s Parsifal with limited forces in the Organ Room at Glyndebourne. He would have been amazed to see it arrive on the main stage this year. But émigrés Carl Ebert and ...

Birders in Ithaca can expect flocks of fellow bird enthusiasts to swarm alongside the Cayuga Bird Club for the New York State ...

Theodore Roosevelt’s two eldest sons shared their father’s passion for the outdoors and traveled to Asia in search of the giant panda.

Acclaimed bird photographer Owen Deutsch and Michael J. Parr, President of the American Bird Conservancy, have joined forces ...

The NEA grant gave voice, honor and power to an audience of poets who nurtured the gift and returned it to society. May it be ever thus.

Two centuries after his downfall, Napoleon remains both revered and controversial in France — but above all, unavoidable.

He also wrote 30 books of poetry, starting with “Dead Horse Table” in 1975. A statue of Welch stands outside of the Ryan T. Calvin Library on the University of Nebraska at Kearney campus.

GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS will release the CD of Real Women Have Curves: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording). Learn more ...

More than 1,000 bookshops throughout America will be highlighting the importance of local bookstores this Saturday with Independent Bookstore Day, hosted by the American Booksellers Association to ...

CADENZA (223 pp.)—Ralph Cusack—Hougton Mifflin ($3.50). Several remarkable platters of pressed peat have been offered the reader in recent years, the more bizarre of them including At ...