New Yorker staff writer John Seabrook recounts his family’s history of innovation and exploitation, creativity and excess, in ...

When NASA first sent men into space in the 1960s, it faced the problem of how to write in zero gravity and spent millions of dollars designing a pen that would work in space. The Soviets got around ...

He later claimed he spoke Spanish and French before English; his trademark lockjaws blended Romance inflections with a ...

If your dad loves a cocktail as much as he loves historical facts, then you've got to get him this set of four marble ...

Arnaz was a behind-the-scenes innovator in the fledgling medium of television, which at the time was frowned upon. The payoff ...

Bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater approaches her first adult novel with the same literary finesse as her previous work.

But this isn’t to say that the spread of such laws outside of the Russian context is a new development: as I documented in ...

Joss was best known as the voice of John Redcorn on "King of the Hill," which ran from 1997 to 2008. A reboot is scheduled to ...

My wife and I arrived in Romania last Wednesday after a two-night stopover and time adjustment in Frankfurt. We stayed in ...

The problem isn’t only the trillions owed. It’s that no modern country has become this indebted absent a crisis.

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I get really fixated on things and then I’m dying to put them into novels,’ Choi, whose previous novel, ‘Trust Exercise’ won ...