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A new history of the Mets tries to turn the pain of losing into the struggle of class politics.

What If Augustine’s idea of original sin was wrong? Testimony from the Inquisition reveals freethinkers using their sexual experience to dispute the reign of shame and otherwise critique Church doctrine.

In writing The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann struggled to free himself from his artistic preoccupation with sickness and death.

In the decades before the Civil War, innovations in printmaking and photography created a “rage for pictures” that transformed American visual culture.

The investigation into the origin of papyrus fragments that the owners of Hobby Lobby purchased from an Oxford scholar underscores papyrology’s long history of shady deals and ulterior motives.

Since Mikhail Bakhtin became widely known in the 1980s, his book on Rabelais has perplexed readers for its seemingly contradictory stance to everything else he wrote.

The languid melodies of Vincenzo Bellini’s operas look simple and spare on the page, but they are exacting, even merciless for singers.

In two recent books the scholar and commentator Fawaz Gerges asks why the region remains a bastion of authoritarian government, prone to conflict and instability, instead of becoming an economic success story.

An oral history of the New York School Poets suggests how its successive cohorts have changed over the years.

To the Editors: In his review of my May 2025 book Our Dollar, Your Problem , Trevor Jackson takes little interest in engaging with the book’s core thesis

The small Baltic country has refashioned the relationship between citizens and the state for the current moment.

The church's culture of forgiving and forgetting sins has absolved abusers and silenced victims across the country.

With his war in Ukraine going badly, he may soon face another quagmire in Chechnya.

In her five years of investigating teacher misconduct in California schools, reporter Holly McDede learned an important lesson: What seems to be secret isn't always so — sometimes you just need to know who to ask, and for what.

Residents of a Pennsylvania town took on a beef processor after its waste polluted their wells. They won — but little may change.

The Trump administration is dismantling two EPA rules, promising cheaper groceries for struggling families. Economists and former officials say it'll only make things pricier.

Oil and gas price spikes are doing what decades of climate diplomacy struggled to achieve.

You have probably never heard of SAFE, but the four-letter acronym is the EU's greatest hope for building a pan-European defence industry. It is also

Across Europe, leaders are struggling to get the really big things done: from pension reform in France, to the energy transition in Italy, or getting

The rapidly spreading Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring countries could become one of the worst outbreaks in the