Andrew Solomon’s new book is a masterpiece of dogged research and persuasive writing.

Anyone who has visited the Frick Museum in New York and entered the main parlor whose walls are hung with splendid portrait after splendid portrait has witnessed one of the wittiest curatorial acts in museum-dom On either side of the massive fireplace hang two portraits by Hans Holbein Looking l

Bruce Levine’s study of Confederate society seeks to correct the errors of generations past.

The story of how an American Jesuit helped shape Pius XI's condemnation of Nazism.

Al Capp was as much a celebrity as L'il Abner, one of his chief creations.

Louise Gl ck has won the Pulitzer Prize the National Book Critics Circle Award the National Book Award the Library of Congress Rebekah Johnson Bobbit National Prize the Bollingen Award the William Carlos Williams Award and the Melville Kain Award She has served twice as the poet laureate of t