Anyone who believes that human beings only use 5 percent of their brains at any given time has never sat down for a chin-wag with Simon Schama, the ebullient, tireless author, art historian, and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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The first thing you notice in General James Wolfe's copy of An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard – the copy he took with him to the 1759 siege of Quebec, the same copy he seems to have read the ...

The title of Simon Schama’s latest volume is borrowed from the Duke of Gloucester’s celebrated remark to Edward Gibbon: “Another damned, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Australian writer Geraldine Brooks has just released a wise and nourishing book about grief. It centres on her late husband, Tony ...