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Too close for comfort

An author who grew up in Washington, D.C., recalls watching jets and helicopters closely bunched in the gloaming sky and wondering, "What if . . . ?"

In a clever but ominous piece of reporting, London’s Financial Times suggested that by the year 2100, the wine regions [...]

The third day into the influenza that I got on Christmas, I noticed a few tea mugs had accumulated in [...]

In 1992, historian and biographer William Manchester published a powerful, if brief, popular history of medieval Europe and how a [...]

I don’t think anyone has ever said the New Jersey Turnpike is beautiful. But this morning it is. An encyclopedia [...]

Those who consider the wrecking ball duo of Donald Trump and Elon Musk a new and dystopian development in American [...]

In the poker game of psychological warfare on which terrorism depends, the September 11 plotters cleaned out the house. In [...]

Originally published in 2007 and praised for its layered, Kafkaesque surrealism, The Vegetarian by Han Kang received the 2016 Man [...]

You may consider the Christmas season a time of fun, and while most Christmas traditions are sweet, especially the ones [...]

Italy long ago backed away from Catholicism as its state religion, but the faith remains fundamentally important, even in the [...]

One of the most durable phrases in the Pentagon’s Vietnam War–era arsenal of euphemisms consisted of two words, protective reaction. [...]