He speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about his new book, "A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects." : [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: In the broadcast version of this interview, Robell Awake ...

But there's much more to "End Times" than could possibly be covered in a normal book review, both in terms of Turchin's cyclical understanding of political history ... but stop short of advocating ...

Poynor’s talent for craft and his improbable rise to prominence is one of ten beautifully illustrated essays in A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects, a new book that chart’s the ...

Now, he has written a short history of British architecture ... But in its final 70 pages, the book "comes flamingly to life", as a "blistering polemic" against the postwar planners and architects ...

(p. 186), If I were teaching an undergraduate survey course on Byzantium, I would choose this book as the text, despite my fondness for A Short History of Byzantium (1997) by John Julius Norwich, ...

In his new book, “A Short History of the Roman Mass,” Father Michael Lang, a priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri and professor of theology, offers a detailed and accessible overview of ...

Papal conclaves have featured calls of election fraud and bribery so gauche that riches were wheeled in on donkey carts.

AN author who does not write a book to order chooses his own subject matter and has a perfect right to do so. In making his choice he is guided by certain considerations of which his own ...

For many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it was ... For a sobering encounter with history, turn to the sections “Dread” and “Disasters, Natural and Man-Made.” ...

Over the summer of 1956 a small but illustrious group gathered at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire; it included Claude Shannon, the begetter of information theory, and Herb Simon, the only ...