In her feisty, graceful “Glyph,” Ali Smith mulls writing and language among other themes: it’s her best work since the lauded ...

This is the second part of an ongoing series chronicling oligarchy and its effects on North American society. There were a number of famous muckrakers. One of the most famous was Ida Tarbell, a ...

Ptolemy and his family ruled Egypt for nearly three centuries, with fourteen monarchs bearing his name. Although it never ...