Henry Kissinger’s new book revisits America’s troubled extrication from Indochina
Thanks to the mega-selling Worst-Case Scenario handbooks, we now know how to cope with charging bulls, plunging elevators and runaway locomotives
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Book Excerpt: Supergerm Warfare
Dragon’s drool, frog’s glands and shark’s stomachs have all been recruited for the fight against drug-resistant bacteria
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Thanks to new technology, backyard stargazers have traveled light-years of late to join professionals in mapping the heavens
An exhibition at Washington’s National Gallery of Art takes a fresh look at one of Spain’s most celebrated artists and the women he painted
Our writers explore new worlds in time and space
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Three decades after Frances FitzGerald won a Pulitzer Prize for Fire in the Lake, her classic work on Vietnam, she returned with photojournalist Mary Cross
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Don Foster Has a Way With Words
Uncovered a Shakespeare elegy, confirmed Ted Kaczynski wrote the Unabomb Manifesto and identified Eric Rudolph as a suspect in the 1996 bombing
Curl up under a blanket and enjoy these whirlpool-inspired excerpts from works by Poe, Verne, Homer and others. Hot chocolate is recommended.
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At every chance the gods throw up mighty obstacles to prevent him from getting home even as the Lady Circe gives him the advice he needs to survive
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Versailles’ labyrinth, which we’ve reconstructed for your virtual pleasure.
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Enjoy a chapter of a translated fictional account of the Sun King’s kitchen gardenerâ—and peek into the intrigues of high society in 17th-century France
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Treasures from the Smithsonian Librariesa Wright brothers bio, a repoussé prayer bookcan be savored in a new show
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