A century ago, Al Smith was a force in American politics—and the first Catholic to mount a major run at the White House. And ...

Kingsley Amis wrote a deep dive story in Food & Wine about the history of gin, how to drink gin, why writers love gin, and why gin may have once been slightly poisonous. Kingsley Amis is one of the ...

Before premiering 'Blue Moon' at Berlin Film Festival, Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke revealed they have a 10th film ...

Joseph J. Thorndike examines how tariff policy in the 19th century slowed the introduction of the modern income tax.

Austenian high jinks, internet boyfriends in crisp tailoring, a royal romp featuring the daughter of two cinematic icons—the ...

Viktor Antonov, the Bulgarian artist who served as art director on both Half-Life 2 and Dishonored, has died at the age of 52 ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Puerto Rico. Guam. The U.S. Virgin Islands. American Samoa. The Northern Mariana Islands. Today these unincorporated ...

Awakened Hands, Awakened Minds' by Louis Vuitton and its creative director, Francesca Amfitheatrof, is the second in a series of high jewelry collections.

In 1866, journalist Andrew Halliday led his readers on a guided tour of one of London’s foremost card manufacturers – to ...

Wayne Martin Belger set out to make indelible photos of a mystical site on the Navajo Nation. First he needed to relearn how ...

Robert Eggers has only made four movies, but he is already celebrated for his unstinting focus on period detail. It turns out that he was inspired by the best.