Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some fantastic new paperbacks, from the gripping story of an international murder case to a state-of-the-nation yarn ...

Aristotle serves as a timeless warning to the public: beware of leaders who loudly and uncharacteristically broadcast their ...

Unshockable veterans of the seamy underbelly of society, mobsters and garbagemen have a lot in common: they know where the ...

HOW MUCH do you know about George Sand? If you are an Anglophone reader, the answer is probably “not a lot”. You might recall ...

While the reigns of George I and II had been marked by a royal detachment from the administration of American colonies, King George III asserted his claim on the colonies strenuously. The king saw the ...

George Emil Palade, universally hailed as the founder of modern cell biology for his many discoveries and insights into the structure and function of eukaryotic cells, died on 7 October at the age of ...

As the annual Hong Kong Book Fair opens this week, two of the city’s best-known independent bookstores, Elmbook and Luckwin, won’t be there. On July 2, authorities barred them from exhibiting. Soon ...

For Americans, the world seemed to turn upside down in 1968. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in April. In response, race riots broke out in some 125 cities across the nation; the riot in ...