A Swiss martial artist and expert swordsman broke a Guinness World Record by using his custom-made blade to slice through ...

South Korean prosecutors have indicted impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law decree, making him the country’s first leader to face criminal charges while in office.

As an avid reader of art books, I’m especially excited to dive into these titles—they promise to inspire, challenge and deepen our understanding of art and its enduring impact. Whether you ...

A form of self-defence that developed in undivided Punjab, gatka is an armed martial art that uses a wooden stick. The word gatka comes from the Sanskrit word gatayas or motion, but in Punjabi, the ...

Officials today hope to inspire a new generation of art lovers. The artist Yuko Mohri in her studio space in Tokyo.Credit...Kentaro Takahashi for The New York Times Supported by By Zachary Small ...

By Alida Becker Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too. In “The Killing Fields ...

Stephen Budiansky’s new book on the Civil War’s most catastrophically bloody day, at Maryland’s Antietam Creek, is an unexpected departure for him. What no biographer should claim ...

Stephen Budiansky’s new book on the Civil War’s most catastrophically bloody day, at Maryland’s Antietam Creek, is an unexpected departure for him. What no biographer should claim ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

The latest book in the phenomenally popular romance-fantasy Empyrean Series finds Violet Sorrengail leaving Basgiath War College, where she’s been studying to be a dragon rider, and venturing ...

January 28, 2025 • An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly around efforts to repatriate artifacts looted from ...

For two months this past fall, I stood through a dozen shows. It opened my eyes to more than what was onstage. The museum closed its office of belonging and inclusion, halting a years-long effort ...