From John O’Hara to Claire Jiménez, via Nabokov and Maya Angelou, these works showcase cultural cross-over in American ...

"Truly amazing." The New Yorker shared that his brush with death taught him that life is short. "It's a powerful reminder that this can all be taken away from you at any moment, and you have to ...

To pass the time and to document my health, I recorded a video diary on my phone ... fainted in front of a whole roomful of people. In short, my body was no longer able to properly maintain ...

My workplace is not a hospital any more. It's a battlefield. And when I turn up for my ten-hour shift, 20 minutes early, it feels like going over the top of the trenches into an onslaught. More ...

A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham' addresses controversies but is more interested in the filmmaker's best work.

The artificial intelligence trade has gotten crowded, two investors famous for betting against the 2008 housing market said they're looking further afield for sizable returns. Porter Collins and ...

The monk smiled pleasantly and explained that the Drukpa madman was alluding to the Gelug school’s debating culture, which often turned rowdy and rancorous, causing aversion. After that incident ...

Indeed, according to his staffer H.R. Haldeman, Nixon coined the term “madman theory”, explaining that he wanted the North Vietnamese to believe he was capable of doing anything to bring the ...

The short film Strange Way of Life, now on Netflix, offers an unexpected narrative that goes beyond what many anticipated.

“I call it the madman theory, Bob,” the incoming president said in 1968, according to Haldeman’s memoirs, published a decade later. Outlining his strategy to convince communist North Vietnam ...

History books can only cover so much, and most of us haven’t cracked one open since we were in college. But if you want to ...