In 1986, Italian authorities built a fortified bunker inside a Palermo prison to hold the largest mafia trial in history. Among the 471 defendants rattling their cages was the entire leadership of the ...

By drawing the British East India Company’s attention to Assamese, Phookan helped turn it into a language of literature and learning.

Explore India's economic evolution through the lens of Finance Ministers' speeches, from grain to digital innovation.

Former Sen. Harry Reid — son of a destitute miner, favorite of the Las Vegas gambling industry and the highest ranking Latter-day Saint politician in U.S. history — left a permanent mark on national ...

New information came to light thanks to a biography written by the man often referred to as the 'secret Beatle' ...

A biography of a female impersonator on the stage, the stories of the ‘middle-India’ woman, dispatches from the Covid years ...

Kashimawo, staged in London by Duke of Shomolu Productions, is a powerful, spiritual retelling of MKO Abiola’s legacy, ...

"People say AI will put people out of work, but it’s the opposite: it will create jobs for writers and history students who ...

Superstar Rajinikanth is a successful Indian film star and an iconic pop culture figure, and people all over the world are enthralled by his charisma .

Newman railed against the machinations of art critics despite being expert at them. There is ‘no such thing as art ...

Cloudsplitter: A Novel,” by Russell Banks, is a 750-page missive that tells the story of John Brown’s lifelong fight against slavery through his son, Owen’s, eyes. The author lived in Keene, New York, ...

Citizen and Socialist and other biographies, Nick Salvatore leaves behind a rich legacy that both challenges and inspires us ...