The story takes place in Madrid in 1988, where an 8-year-old girl named Elena lives with her parents and grandmother in a ...

A lot happens in Python’s Kiss, a new collection of stories by Louise Erdrich, only her second since The Red Convertible ...

Highbrow Magazine contributing writer Barbara Noe Kennedy discovers the marvels of Ticino, Switzerland. Watch her video below ...

It’s a fun hybridization of hardboiled pessimism and comic flamboyance, and Nicolas Cage is ideal in the leading role. Cage ...

We show up to these digital flickering hearths every night for the same reason our grandparents went to the diner: just to be ...

White River Crossing. by Ian McGuire. Crown. 274 pages. Gold is the driving force behind the action in Ian McGuire’s new ...

While Mom is jetting off to a factory in South Korea to start up her new business, Nate is left in charge of their three ...

“Jeffries Knock-Out”, photograph of the Jack Johnson vs. Jim Jeffries during the World Heavyweight Championship of 1910 — Source. Held in Jim Crow–era Nevada on the 4th of July, the 1910 World ...

There’s an interesting dissonance between changing times and values. Younger generations typically push the cultural envelope at first, then decry the generations that follow as they age. What remains ...

John Banville is a vastly gifted (and almost ridiculously prolific) author. With 23 novels to his credit—not including at least 10 so-called “Quirke” mystery novels—perhaps the most remarkable aspect ...

In this article and accompanying video, writer Mark Orwoll recounts his adventures in Dominica and discovering the delights of bush rum. Read, and watch the video below. I have a high tolerance for ...

On a sweltering summer day in 2013, a single tweet from Tahrir Square sparked a global conversation. Armed with nothing but smartphones, Egyptian protesters captured the raw energy of a movement that ...