The former Vanity Fair editor reflects on an era’s power moves and expense-account adventures in a new memoir.

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Testimony before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives January 17, 2024 Robert Rector Senior Research Fellow The ...

Empress Dowager Ling was not a warrior, but she embraced martial symbols of her own power that were available to women in Taghbach culture but not in Chinese culture. For example, she was an ...

The writer presents the second volume of his monumental novel 'A Thousand Eyes Hide the Night'. Now the action moves to Paris ...

Even though the Empress Dowager Ling’s rule was problematic and short — resulting in her assassination — she laid the foundation for other, more successful female rulers across medieval East Asia.

You already know the biographical facts. Arthur Evelyn St John Waugh was born in 1903, the second son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic and the managing ... He quotes, for example, from several ...

Before he was a novelist Sebald was a straight scholar. What insight into his enigmatic literary oeuvre can we ascertain from these newly published essays?

In her debut novel, Swedish pop star Annika Norlin spins a tale about a woman who, like Thoreau, seeks a simple life away ...

Three women have been chosen for the role at Elizabeth Gaskell's House in Manchester precisely because they "didn't know her" ...

A new history traces the development and influence of the global Wages for Housework movement from its founding to present ...

Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb.