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Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summer...

Cassandra Clare, creator of the internationally best-selling Mortal Instruments series, now towers as an author of young-adult fantas...

Democrats have occupied the White House for 15 of the past 23 years, and Thomas Frank pointedly asks: What do they have to show for i...

Libraries were an essential part of life for Jane Austen – and for the characters in her novels. She made ample use of her father’s collection of more...

It is one of the world’s most iconic images: a nude man, arms and legs outstretched, inside a square within a circle. Vitruvian Man – completed by Leo...

Beset by sex crimes and cover-ups, financial scandal, declining membership, and the stunning resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, the Catholic Church tur...

When The Washington Post asked 162 political science scholars earlier this year which American president should be added to Mount Rushmore, t...

Coterie Theatre artists read from Peter Brown’s story of individuality and self-expression, revolving around an all-too-dignified tig...

Alexander von Humboldt was, in his time, one of the most interesting men in the world. The 19th-century explorer and naturalist climbed volcanoes...