I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, ...

I would tell a different story about the decline of literary fiction, and it is a story about social pressure and conformity.

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Join us as we count down the ten greatest ska albums ever recorded, spanning from the early origins of the Jamaican rhythm to its 1970s Coventry counterpart.

For the past 15 years, documentary photographer Karen Ballard has been working on a long-term project about Venice, a vibrant ...

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An experiential portrait depicting Satanists in both the everyday and in the extraordinary as they fight to preserve their lifestyle: magic, mystery, and misanthropy. Director Scott Cummings' "unique ...

The ultra-Orthodox Jewish subculture is engaging more with the outside world after centuries of separation. Within a minority ...

Feminists, religious crusaders and “alpha male” influencers have turned the tide in the decades-old battle over adult content ...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to reverse decades-old American sanctions on Syria and “give ...

Almost eight years after rape accusations against heavyweight movie producer Harvey Weinstein upended the film business and ...