The highly anticipated film Civil War lands in theatres this week. Acclaimed filmmaker Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Ex Machina, Annihilation, Men) wrote and directed the film, set in the imagined ...

Brooklyn-based poet Tom Sleigh has won the $100,000 US Kingsley Tufts Award, one of the world's largest prizes for poetry, for his collection Space Walk. The prize, first awarded in 1993, is given ...

Acclaimed Lebanese author and feminist Emily Nasrallah, who articulated women's experiences in her writing about Lebanon's civil war, has died at the age of 87, her daughter said.

So it was that I found myself writing “When General Grant Expelled the Jews” in Jerusalem, even as my thoughts centered on such Civil War sites as Holly Springs, Mississippi and Paducah, Kentucky.

Whether the debate is occasioned by a polemical book or a movie like last year’s “Civil War,” I consistently take the negative on the question of whether the United States is headed for a ...