Dar es Salaam. Tanzania played a complex and pivotal role during the turbulent 1990s in the Great Lakes region—simultaneously serving as a humanitarian haven for hundreds of thousands of refugees and ...

Was the same Playbook to unmake Multiculturalism and stage the Palestine Nakba (catastrophe) for the violent birth of Israel in May 1948 used years later in the July 1983 pogrom and staged riots in ...

Elizabeth Kolbert, Bill McKibben, and Rivka Galchen on narratives of our era of strange, changing weather.

Geoff Dyer's new book, Homework, is a memoir about his postwar U.K. childhood. The award-winning author of But Beautiful, Out ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Tracy Slater, author of "Together in Manzanar," which tells the true story of a family of ...

Relentless conflict, mass displacement, and disease outbreaks are behind soaring malnutrition rates across Sudan, putting ...

A War Over Heaven and Hell Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it ‘longer than it is.’ But ‘Paradise Lost’ reshaped English literature.

It was recognized in May with the Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable’s annual distinguished book award. “It’s quite an honor, from this roundtable, to receive something like this,” Kirkwood said.

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in an age of book bans, how powerful stories — and reading — can be.

Inducted into the Marine Corps at a 1967 Twins game with 149 others, North Branch author Christy Sauro spent years collecting the Vietnam War stories of his fellow Marines.

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month That Saved America.” His latest book covers the period ...