A serial killer is loose on the streets of 19th century Melbourne in 'The Butterfly Women' by Madeleine Cleary.

He wrote a series of witty police procedurals set in Victorian England and then turned to the present, introducing a ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has cautiously and efficiently handled 100 days of an uncertainty that is far from over.

Moyse’s Hall Museum in Suffolk has put on display a book bound in the skin of William Corder, who was executed for the Red ...

And working from the shadows is nobleman Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (Jérémie Renier), a savvy statesman who’s ...

In “A Training School for Elephants,” Sophy Roberts revisits an especially bizarre episode from the exploitation of Africa.

Kensington takes its name from the road of the same name and is thought to have taken its name from the other Kensington in ...

Never mind Hawthorne and Thoreau— the women of mid-19th century New England had their own ambitions for writing and life.

Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum (located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk) just found an anthropodermic book hidden on an office ...

The Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg exhibition, “Kimono: The Triumph of Japanese Dress,” showcases more than 100 pieces ...

Now, nearly two centuries later, a second such book has emerged.

Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, Edwin Frank explores how reality has been presented and even transformed through the ...