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 ...

The long, momentous Victorian age came to an end with the death of the old Queen in 1901 - while the accession of her son, ...

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

The one-woman cabaret-style show tells the story of Linda Lee Thomas, the socialite who married the gay composer ...

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

Classrooms were teeming with children, not with vibrant energy, but with the lurking threat of contagious diseases.

You could probably pick any one of several dozen different songs written by Bob Dylan and do a “ten best” just for that one ...

Early on in Andres Veiel’s documentary “Riefenstahl,” Leni Riefenstahl says that she believes the opposite of politics is art ...

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