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Modernity is creeping into historical fiction in increasingly thoughtless ways.

Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights. Ulysses or Catch-22 … Find out which title came top, as chosen by authors, critics and academics worldwide

How hallacas and the banana plant became intertwined in Venezuelan cultural memory.

Let's take a trip down the book-lined pathways of Memory Lane...

The textile artist known as Cheeks embraced a wave of city pride at his now-viral Fort Greene embroidery pop-up.

Deadly bombardments across Ukraine sparked the fire in the UNESCO site, an 11th-century Christian monastery.

To RISD’s graduating class, I say: The most necessary work comes from the willingness to stay in the discomfort of the open question.

It was an undeniably awesome weekend. Speaking from a New York angle, it simply couldn’t get better: warm evenings, Pride events galore, and

Brooklyn Public Library is celebrating our country's 250th anniversary the best way we know how: with a thoughtful, surprising, irresistible

In the Old West, cross-dressing was sometimes a disguise for criminals on the lam. But, one historian argues, in many cases these “cross-dre

The war radicalized many draft-age men, gay as well as straight. They helped normalize certain expressions of homosexuality while trying to

If you can't get enough of folk horror, don't miss these eight unputdownable queer folk horror books.

The world's most famous salad started as a Tijuana trend.