On 11 May 1944, just four weeks before D-Day, 67 American heavy bombers dropped 168 tons of bombs on the sunlit French town of Épinal on the Moselle River. Unbeknownst to the aircrew of the “Mighty ...

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“Au Fil de L’Or” — in English, “Golden Thread” — is to retrace the art of incorporating gold into women’s ceremonial clothing ...

He’d grown up in the U.S. thinking he was the son of Jack Wright, an African-American GI whom his French mother had met and ...

A supermarket that accepts dollars has opened in Havana, part of growing dollarization in Communist-led Cuba. The government ...

Despite being repeatedly targeted by terrorists, France’s resilience is undeniable. So is its change.

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

SEE MORE The new Barnes & Noble bookstore at Bellevue Square in Bellevue, Wash., opened on Wednesday. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Barnes & Noble is back in downtown Bellevue, Wash., ...

Visitors to the store can explore a range of ready-to-wear garments and accessories, the company announced in a press release on Wednesday. Founded in 1984 by Evelyne Chetrite and her son Ilan ...

Creating a roundup of the 25 best-selling books of all time is harder than it sounds. Books—especially those published hundreds of years ago—were published in different editions and translated ...