Only one thing is for certain, no one knows to this day what happened to these famous people, just that one day they vanished ...

Cool Girl” writers like Joan Didion and Eve Babitz have been endlessly marketed to women. But what truths might men learn ...

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They are among the 269 children who were sacrificed and buried around A.D. 1450 at two sites near Chan Chan, the ancient capital of the Chimú people ... “You’ll be famous,” Prieto recalls ...

Historically a place where monarchs and aristocrats would escape the winter in favour of warm Mediterranean climes, this southern French city is at its best in the off season.

They cannot and "will not work" with "Israeli cultural institutions..including publishers, festivals, literary agencies, and publications." And thus, with a single pen stroke they think they've slain ...

In an interview with Le Monde, the French essayist acknowledges that there is a continuum between sexist offenses and sexual violence, but believes that we need to distinguish between them, in order ...

Often referred to as “the black Raymond Chandler”, Chester Himes’s celebrated cycle of novels have a wit and a philosophy of ...

Have you ever watched world leaders shaking hands at this or that summit and wondered, “Do these guys hang out?” What if they ...

Here’s a nostalgic look at classic cartoons that once ruled the airwaves. From classics in the 1950s and '60s to more recent ...