Author Charu Gupta’s fine-grained studies of lesser-known vernacular intellectuals and practitioners illuminate a whole range ...

How to revive an 18th-century upstate farmhouse without resorting to cliché? By pretending a made-up person lives there too.

In the early 20th century, cities like Penang, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore were seen as a kind of El Dorado for Malayalis ...

Featuring coachwork by Erdmann & Rossi, this Horch 853 Spezialroadster started life as a stunning automotive masterpiece, but ...

A cousin of Christian Science and the progenitor of the self-help industry’s more-secularized “positive thinking” gospel, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the hit movie “Wicked,” those famous magical shoes are silver. But if you want to see them in all their ...

When Immanuel Wallerstein died in 2019, he was one of the most influential thinkers about the crisis-ridden development of ...

"Night riders is what we call them," said William Bader, who in a phone interview last month identified himself as the ...

A rediscovered book about the legendary hotel — a shabby chic center of Hollywood creativity and debauchery for nearly 100 ...

Musicals have stood out as a landmark genre in cinema ever since the first film with sound, The Jazz Singer. Since then, ...

Feb. 6-23, on Octagon Stage. Ten-year-old Kenny chronicles the events of a fateful summer for the Watson family of Flint, ...

Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers, has died. He was 92.