A new Apple TV+ series explores the life of the so-called "King of Chefs and the Chef of Kings" – shown as a wild enfant ...

A white Jewish Englishman who came of age during the early 19th century ... There, far from British eyes, Isaacs became a warlord, holding slaves — and, the author says, perhaps dealing in ...

MN Shortlist is your weekly curated roundup of recommended events from MPR News, including a poetic evening with Jim Moore, a ...

Ivan Vazov, born in 1850 to a wealthy merchant family in Sopot, a village before Bulgaria achieved liberation from Ottoman ...

At the northern end of the Black Sea, Crimea sits at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, having been at various times in its ...

Taylor Swift is known for making literary and theatre references in her songs—from the classic Romeo and Juliet tale in “Love ...

Combined with David Ricardo (1772-1823), another influential British economist who expounded on the benefits of free trade with his theory of comparative advantage, by the mid-19th century laissez ...

An anthology of her teenage poetry, published for the first time, shows ambition, even if the verse isn’t perfect.

Scott Fitzgerald was worried about “The Great Gatsby.” It had been fifteen years since the novel was published, and the ...

In 1940, a devastating fire tore through Castle Howard, a historic home set on 1,000 wooded acres in North Yorkshire, England ...