Education

Archaeologists in Southeast Asia are pushing toward a deeper understanding of history that amplifies Indigenous and local perspectives.

28 years after the murder, a new Netflix docuseries has us questioning what we think we know.

A Huddersfield professor finds the first reference in 540 years of any item belonging to the princes.

Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral has some surprising stories to tell before it reopens this weekend after five years of restoration.

Nothing makes you feel more like a flivver than getting too peloothered and waking up with the woofits.

Our annual list of what powerful people found essential reading this year. The tumult of 2024 affected reading habits: Our annual survey of business leaders, elected officials and entrepreneurs found many of them seeking stability in their favorite new books.

Madame Bovary, c’est moi. The phrase, often attributed to Gustave Flaubert, may be better known than any line in his novels. But many scholars consider the remark to be apocryphal.

Hours before the results started coming in on November 5, when Democrats were still full of hope, the exit polls released by the major news networks contained a striking piece of data that gave supporters of Kamala Harris reason for optimism.

Choosing to write about “settler colonialism” as a theoretical notion and political concept is not an obvious choice for a poet and cultural critic, but Adam Kirsch’s new book is not about theory or politics. It deals instead with ideology.

Scholastique Mukasonga’s Sister Deborah suggests that some people must look outside the traditional bounds of Christianity to find true spiritual freedom. My immigrant parents—my father especially—are ardent Christians.