National Book Award-winning novel, 'James,' Percival Everett grapples with philosophical and metaphysical questions as well ...

Mark Twain said it’s not the parts of the Bible he doesn’t understand that bother him; it’s the parts he does understand.

What we didn’t anticipate was that our new Gilded Age would become even more like its precursor—not only in the seeming ...

The Jewish holiday of Purim, celebrated March 13-14, is considered holier than Yom Kippur, yet it’s a story of survival where ...

Editor: Regarding Thadeus Greenson's coverage of the St. Joseph abortion case ("Judge Takes St. Joseph Abortion Case Under Submission," Feb. 20), it seems to ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

It was the most consequential election in the city’s history, yet there has been no commemoration of the anniversary. Not a ...

It was a religious excuse for a Jewish version of ... in the face of relentless persecution itself seems miraculous. Mark Twain famously pondered the mystery of how empires have risen and fallen ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Tread lightly in discussions about politics, religion and racial issues ... Things might look worse than they actually are. (Mark Twain said that most of the terrible ...

While many small farmers and working-class people in the Gilded Age supported the Democratic Party, factors like ethnicity, geography, partisan loyalty and religion divided the ... in 1873, Mark Twain ...

That means a book couldn’t be banned based on race, national origin, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion ... Homer, Mark Twain, Toni Morrison,” Sen.