A critic once remarked that Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie writes so simply that a cat or a dog can understand her. It was meant as a compliment and taken as such. In her new book she ...

Winter is the perfect season to slow down, seek inspiration and lose yourself in books that expand your creative world. This ...

William Henry Jackson’s photos of scenic wonders like Yellowstone’s Old Faithful helped generate interest in a national park system.

The new Affinity app from Canva replaces Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, and Affinity Publisher, which already shared most of their core code. It’s free to use, requires a Canva account, and ...

The Lebanese philosopher Charles Malik and the French jurist René Cassin had little in common. When they met, in 1947, Malik was a devout Orthodox Christian, Lebanon’s first ambassador to the U.S. and ...

The legendary pair share their thoughts on the craft of photography, what goes into a great shot, and what they hope for the future of wildlife. Red-billed oxpeckers create a winged dance around this ...

A spectacular robbery took place on the morning of Sunday, October 19, shortly after the Louvre museum opened, when a gang of four criminals seized eight 19 th-century jewels described as having ...

A radio image of two black holes orbiting each other in Quasar OJ287. The light comes from the glowing gas surrounding the black holes and the particle jets being emitted. Valtonen, Mauri et al., The ...

On Monday, October 13, 2025, the Kerala High Court dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by a lawyer on September 18 that sought to halt the sale of Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy’s ...

The Detroit Catholic church where a painting depicting Jesus as a Black man, generating both international acclaim and violent threats, is shutting down, and the fate of the building and the renowned ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

In a project of Herculean proportions, British author and historian Andy Saunders has returned to the NASA archives to follow up his epic "Apollo Remastered" photographic book from 2022 to create and ...