Nancy Kricorian grew up in Watertown in a two-family house where her grandmother, a survivor of the Armenian genocide, lived ...

People from across the United Kingdom swarmed this small town, and soon book sellers from other kingdoms and republics ...

This year is the 40th anniversary of Oolite Arts, which was founded by late potter and visionary Ellie Schneiderman. The ...

Vienna has a distinct, historic coffee culture with thousands of coffeehouses which are social gathering places. The capital ...

Strauss offered a new, mythographical reading of the Gospels, discounting the historical veracity of the miracles attributed ...

Which material was popularized in ancient Egypt (and later used by Greece and the Roman Empire) for writing books and other ...

When Lytton Strachey set out to write “Eminent Victorians” in 1918, he sought to enliven the stuffy Victorian conventions of ...

In “Darkenbloom,” by the Austrian novelist Eva Menasse, the citizens of a European border town have secrets they’d prefer to ...

Famous for waltzes, Freud, pastries, and Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy falling in love in Before Sunrise (see image above), ...

Richard Ledes' "V13" imagines a meeting of the minds between the future Nazi dictator and Jewish analyst in prewar Vienna.

The CIA Book Club. By Charlie English. William Collins; 384 pages; £25. To be published in America by Random House in July; $35 George Minden, the leader of the literary-propaganda scheme, described ...

In 1966, the conductor arrived in Vienna with a mission: to restore Gustav Mahler’s place in 20th-century music.