Concept albums are pretty hard to pull off, but some of the best, like Quadrophenia and The Wall, show they can be rock ...

A relatively unknown, Francis Ellen Watkins Harper was a Baltimore native born in the early 1800s who fought for voting rights, women's rights and an end to slavery.

This year's Bafta-nominated shorts encompass a faded pop star, family trauma, queer romance, departed loved ones and social ...

American crime writer best known for his 2005 novel Drive which was turned into a hit film starring Ryan Gosling ...

Paul McCartney was far from finished after The Beatles, and songs like "Live and Let Die" and "Band on the Run" are more than enough proof of that!

The total circulation of Ivan Shamyakin’s publications, even during his lifetime, exceeded 25 million copies. Throughout the Soviet years, Shamyakin was among the most popular writers of the vast USSR ...

From a grandfather’s shack on the south coast to postwar riots, lost poems, war photographs and a Scottish castle cut off by a storm, these ten books are Caroline Overington’s picks on what to read ...

Nearly a century later, her granddaughter, now a sociologist at Whitman College and author of “Love Letters: Saving Romance in the Digital Age,” has saved several of those letters. While they often ...

Relationship expert Jordan Gray explains that emotional depth in a relationship shows up when two people feel safe and ...

In one of them, he becomes the horse itself and cries out: "The desert's sand lies white as snow; the Yanshan Mountains' moon ...

The National Book Development Board (NBDB) and the Filipino Critics Circle have announced the 30 winners of the 43rd National Book Awards, recognizing the year’s most outstanding locally published ...