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Michael Clune's debut novel Pan shares little beside its title and first-person perspective with the nineteenth-century Norwegian novella by Knut Hamsun about the erotic yearnings and pantheisti ...

A stark and unsettling portrait of success, in the vein of Philip Roth and Jonathan Franzen, that revives the long-established intersection between ambition and corruption in the pursuit of the Americ ...

The battle between the power of government and individual liberty has been the enduring struggle throughout American history. When Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence in 1776, he h ...

Author and historian David McCullough left a massive void behind in his absence when he died in 2022. Fortunately, many close to him agreed that his wisdom and insights were still needed today. In Sep ...

Adapted from Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law by Roy K. Altman. Copyright © 2026 by Roy K. Altman. Reprinted with permission of Advantage Books. At Camp Davi ...

Rosalia is a young Spanish popstar, but if you're American like me, you probably had no idea who she was until a couple months ago. To me, the new generation of Latin musicians -- rappers l ...

It wasn't so long ago that if you wanted some boudin, Louisiana's tasty and versatile pork-liver-veggie-and-rice sausage, you had to live in or visit Louisiana to get some. In fact, throug ...

I find failure fascinating. My first scholarly articles explored well-meaning Army General William Westmoreland's Vietnam War disaster. I never thought I'd see that happen again. Then came ...

When it comes to functioning democracies, trust is an integral ingredient; without it, communities cannot function, and citizens grow increasingly despondent and hopeless. In 2026, America is celebrat ...

Shortly before 11:00 p.m, 24-year old heiress Leila Welsh and her boyfriend Richard Funk stepped into Kansas City's swinging Hotel Phillips. They walked across the palatial lobby into the Tropic ...