The scene illustrates as well as anything the problem of trying to write a history of that endlessly fascinating but ...

Death (John Cleese) makes himself comfortable as he joins for dinner and continuously repeats he is the Grim Reaper.

In 1879, during the Battle of Rorke's Drift, a soldier finds his leg has been bitten off. Suspecting a tiger, the soldiers ...

A critic once remarked that Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie writes so simply that a cat or a dog can understand her. It was meant as a compliment and taken as such. In her new book she ...