A Chicago criminologist challenges our assumptions about why most shootings happen—and what really makes a city safe.

The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.

A Necropolis is a mere depository for dead bodies,” Douglass wrote. “Green-Wood,” on the other hand, implied “verdure, shade, ...

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the ...

As the Lebanese Army tries to assert its authority in the war-torn south, calls to disarm Hezbollah are rising.

We have been so touched by the flood of D.M.s, the comments posted on Nextdoor, and the notes tied to rocks thrown through ...

There are many ways to celebrate spring, but few contemporary artists have devoted more attention to the topic than David ...

Watching the New York Knickerbockers this season felt like being on a rollercoaster whose entire path was a vertiginous drop.

The movie podcast, which examines the crazy passion projects that directors pursue after their first big hit (“Aloha” or ...

The Pavement front man passed through town with his latest project, the Hard Quartet, and showed off his one-handed backhand.

The new book picks up a decade later with a different crisis, this one born of a sudden increase in drugs. Among the novel’s ...

The N.H.L.’s newest hockey team unveiled its official name and mascot: an extinct behemoth with fossils at the American ...