Lynne Viola, professor of history at Toronto University and a highly respected historian of the Soviet Union of the 1930s, has written a searing book on an immense and all too... Read More

“As long as we rule India we are the greatest power in the world,” said Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, in 1901. “If we lose India, we shall drop straightaway to a... Read More

“I have to state that Philology, both Comparative and special, has been my favourite pursuit,” said James Murray. Never before or since has an army of amateurs produced so... Read More

“I wrote not to be fed, but to be famous,” declared Sterne, and in bursting onto the London literary scene in 1760, with the publication of the first two volumes of Tristram... Read More

Few English writers offer as much mystery and magic as Daniel Defoe, and very few can match his output, which ranges from Robinson Crusoe—the very stuff of escapism and... Read More

The musical theater in England and America has changed radically since the days of Rodgers and Hart. Spectacles like Evita and A Little Night Music barely resemble earlier works... Read More

A magazine ad campaign once ran the following: “Bill Shakespeare, screenwriter. Discuss.” If that is the question, then Shakespeare in the Movies is the answer. An informed,... Read More

“We thank Thee, O God, for all the goodness and courage which have passed from the life of thy servant, Walter Perry Chrysler, into the lives of others, and have left the... Read More

Don’t fall in love with your own airship, warns Umberto Eco in his little section of this book. His warning, meant to evoke memories of those foolish days when inflatable... Read More

Introducing this collection of nine (as in nine innings) essays, Tygiel hurls a beanball at the intellectuals who over the past couple of decades have reveled in an orgy of... Read More

Cults, sects and esoteric truth-propounders are a constant in American history. While communal groups such as Puritans, Quakers, Shakers and others have earned general approval,... Read More

It is impossible to think of Arthur Conan Doyle without Sherlock Holmes coming to mind as well. Though Doyle was the author of numerous successful works of fiction, today he is... Read More