Between the years 629 and 645 AD the famous Chinese monk Xuanzang traveled through Central Asia and India to visit Buddhist ...

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A new book makes the case for thinking differently of Jane Birkin—and doesn’t always succeed.

My answer on the final exam got me booted from the university.

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Marilyn Monroe was murdered as she became involved with some of the most famous people in the country and learned the ...

A new biography of the ruler of Scotland, England, and Ireland—the one for whom that famous Bible is named—reveals the way ...

Frank Gehry, whose provocatively adventurous buildings — among them the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Walt ...

Gertrude Stein had no doubt that she was a genius. “I have been the creative literary mind of the century,” she once boasted.

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