Tucked above depictions of Adam and Eve, the haunting images of Cain and Abel in the Ghent Altarpiece underscore the wages of ...

Roses are red, violets are blue. Bet you didn't know the modern Valentine's Day card originated in Massachusetts, did you?

The novelist John Irving is famous for telling stories set in his native New England and in Austria, the site of a pivotal ...

Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that Irving's “Queen Esther” will be published Nov. 4. His novel will bring back Dr.