Col. Andrei Demurenko’s war story began at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., at a moment of hope and peace. It ended with a mortar blast in Ukraine.

The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

The Divine Comedy, the poet’s tour of the Christian afterlife, is filled with strikingly modern touches—and a poetic energy ...

The family of enslaved potter David Drake — known as “Dave the Potter” — has reclaimed two rare stoneware jars he created in ...

The 76th National Book Awards was a night of sobering speeches, soft acoustic performances and bookworms getting down on the ...

Author Rabih Alameddine won for his novel The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother). Other winners include a book for young people about orphans on the run in Iran during World War II.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the country’s literature was widely considered provincial. Then Malcolm Cowley set ...

Worthing Peace Group has made a display of white poppies to remember all victims of war. Members gathered at the Peace Tree ...