Get to the city of canals before it disappears -- and don't forget to grab Calvino, James and, of course, Thomas Mann.

She'd said she was a cheerleader, but she looked more like a football.

Beard brings up the divorce story of the Beatles’ song, but it has an important place in sports too

A sweet-spirited and clever film for anyone who's ever been a sci-fi nerd -- or laughed at one.

Not every hopeful monarch got their chance to ascend the throne, no matter how long they waited

"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo

African American inventors have largely been ignored and discredited

Season 3 opens with a much-awaited wedding, the arrival of a crass American, and a threat to the estate's future

Jeff Bezos' shocking purchase of the Washington Post should set an example to his fellow Internet moguls

Salon reports on the movers and shakers who couldn't attend Time's gala birthday party.

Women on Medicaid have been more affected by the crusade against abortion for 40 years, but now it's worse

New Jersey governor thinks the fact that America's finance elite begged him to be president is a good thing

Another writer tries to shock us out of our bourgeois complacency with seedy tales of life in the gutter. Isn't this shtick getting pretty stale?

Republican power grab shatters 30 years of political progress for Black voters in Galveston County

Prime Video's "Red, White & Royal Blue" inspired a little digging to see if any other UK royals have been out