In last night's "Mad Men," SCDP staff acted like teenagers -- but they won't get away with it for much longer

Britain's No Music Day offers a welcome hush over a noisy world. It can't come to America soon enough.

"Fighting to Make America America Again" is a bit too close to Langston Hughes for the candidate's comfort

One artist explains why the country's hardest-working celebrity is good for us. (Somehow, this involves Borges)

In 1996, scientists were convinced they'd found fossils on a Martian meteorite. The controversy continues today

German writer Gunter Grass is hardly the first person to be banned for criticizing the Jewish state

As Jamie and David take over the world, the hockey spotlight turns from the dominant U.S. women to the "Dream Team" men's tournament.

"Moby-Dick" not only bests "Huck Finn," it's the novel that best captures our spirit -- and named that coffee chain

In conversation with the novelist David Mitchell, the U2 and Coldplay producer explains the essence of creativity

Two senators suggest formal action to punish Pastor Jones' speech -- and show the uncounted cost of endless war

Trump's core loyalists are older, less educated, more Southern, more Christian — and driven by resentment

In a culture of pathological distraction where half the population is semi-literate, this isn't a huge surprise

How "Chinatown" screenwriter Robert Towne hooked up with Tom Cruise and John Woo to script "M:I-2."

Their three-year fling — which ended when he died in her living room — has shaped my life in immeasurable ways

Formerly LeRoi Jones, the civil rights leader inspired a generation of slam poets, playwrights and musicians