There’s a wonderful book called Battle Cry of Freedom. It’s a history of the Civil War era, and it’s by a Princeton professor named James McPherson. At one point, he talks about the influence of Uncle ...

I don’t know why, but my favorite image in Cathie Pelletier’s lyrical novel ”Beaming Sonny Home” is the purses of the daughters of Mattie Gifford, long-suffering wife of the wayward (and dead) Lester.

The Pearl Brunswick (New York's only all all-female musical improv group) present their full-length musical, replete with all of the ensuing pathos, bathos, and exaggerated diva-esque hand motions.

We hope it’s just temporary — After becoming the first U.S. Olympic hockey team to go winless in first three games since 1968, Team USA quietly checked out of athletes’ village and into a small leper ...

WASHINGTON, March 11 (UPI) -- The pundits were still celebrating the liberation of Egypt from 60 years of Pharaonic rule when the news no one wanted to believe began filtering back. Censorship by ...