Magicians are vying for the role of a lifetime in the new "love letter to artists" from author Megan Jauregui Eccles ...

The rags-to-riches tale had already made fans of Zadie Smith and Dua Lipa. Roddy Doyle, who chaired the judging panel, called the book “singular” and “extraordinary.” By Alex Marshall Reporting from ...

Readers of David Szalay’s “Flesh,” shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, should not be fooled by its simple prose — it is a complex, frustrating and gripping story of exploitation, masculinity, class ...

Twelve terrorists. One cop. The odds are against John McClane... That's just the way he likes it.

One of the modern reforms instituted by Spain’s short-lived (1931-36) democratic republic was the outlawry of prostitution. When Dictator Franco seized power, he reinstituted prostitution, set a ...

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has traveled farther than any spacecraft in human history. After more than four decades of silent endurance through space, it now sails beyond the orbit of the outer ...

One of the innumerable legends surrounding the construction of the Great Wall of China tells of a workman who estimated that he would need 99,999 bricks to construct a section of the wall now known as ...

The Wall of Worry indicator suggests the current market rally, despite recent gains, still has room to run as investor skepticism persists. The WOW index, a composite of five sentiment indicators, ...

How about that for American Realism? President Trump hinted that he will troll ex-President Joe Biden with an “autopen portrait” in a new White House gallery he’s calling the “Presidential Wall of ...

The Great Wall of China continues to fascinate the world, thousands of years after construction on the massive bulwark first began. This architectural wonder is a historic reminder of what humanity ...

The first human case in the U.S. of a flesh-eating parasite was reported in Maryland.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said a case of the flesh-eating New World screwworm parasite has ...

The patient returned from travel to El Salvador, officials said. The U.S. has confirmed the first case of a flesh-eating parasite in a human, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on ...