Vietnam has significantly expanded island-building work in areas it claims in the Spratly Islands chain of the disputed South ...

The Monitor’s reviewers choose the best of August 2025, from novels and biographies to accounts of history.

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Kenny Nguyen, a UNC Charlotte grad, also has interns from the university assist him and learn about their craft in his ...

Directors Trương Minh Quý and Nicolas Graux follow Cao Thị Hậu’s words and gestures on a journey back to the cave of her ...

An interdisciplinary research team led by scientists from Freie Universität Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for ...

The centerpiece of the current Petaluma Arts Center exhibition, “Place-Making Through Public Art,” is a map – a very large, ...

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Hayden Anhedönia’s Southern-gothic storytelling made her a sensation. But her new album, “Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love ...

Trump is transforming the White House, a once-restrained neoclassical structure, into something like one of Saddam Hussein’s ...

Waddy Wachtel, the legendary guitarist and X-Pensive Wino whose name appeared on many of the greatest albums since the mid-70s, Neil Young bassist Rick Rosas, Tom Petty’s drummer Phil Jones, and ...

The Arkansas River Trail loop has long been lauded as an example of Central Arkansas’s forward-thinking commitment to tourism, sustainability and quality of life. But more than two decades after ...