On the higher slopes of Mount Olympus, blurbs are a way by which the gods speak to each other in code, with the whole world ...

While few recall her film works today, The Girl on a Motorcycle, released in the “revolutionary year” 1968 as my old colleague Christopher Hitchens always described it, has an obscure but significant ...

But after his fall, beginning in his first days in the hospital, Kureishi started to write furiously. A flurry of social-media posts earned him sympathy and admiration for his truth-telling. Over two ...

If I could raise my arms, I’d be doing a Nazi salute right now. If I could walk, I’d be goose-stepping. After all, it’s ...

Writers can do crazy things in quest of a blurb. When Norman Mailer finished his third novel, The Deer Park, he sent a copy ...

Ralph Leonard is a British-Nigerian writer on international politics, religion, culture and humanism. Get our guide to the day’s biggest news and ideas, delivered to your inbox every weekday and ...

The British Museum should return the ancient treasures to Greece for the sake of art, not nationalism.

Being religious is a bit like learning to play soccer, says New York Times columnist and bestselling author Ross Douthat. You ...

The New York Times columnist and best-selling author hopes to convince spiritual seekers that faith in God might actually be ...

Sir Stephen Fry, the distinguished British actor, writer, director, and well-known Philhellene, recently spoke at the ...

We should then have only to include the North in our confederacy . . . and we should have such an empire for liberty as she ...