He grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?

She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.

Through films about films and characters in the act of watching, a new wave of trans filmmakers is transforming a medium that has long distorted their…

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

Edward Bernays spun the much-maligned practice of propaganda into a treatise on the modern, softer-sounding communications strategy he dubbed public relations.

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The margin for making diesel from crude oil in the US has soared to more than $100 a barrel, setting new all-time highs as a global fuel-making crunch continues to exacerbate fuel prices.

Wattpad says its rules around sexual and self-insert fanfics haven’t changed. But that hasn’t stopped users from worrying about the fate of smut and sold-to-1D stories — or clashing with fans of the site they’re fleeing to. Here’s what to know.

All rich kids should be socialists.

Liberal arts and AI are reshaping the future of education. Tim King explains why what's old is new again amidst the AI revolution.

A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.

The film-maker, also behind A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, died on Wednesday in his San Diego home Director Chuck Russell, who helped propel actors such as Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to the Hollywood A-list, was found dead in his San Diego, California, home on Wednesday. He was 74. Russell directed several box office hits in his decades-long career including A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Blob and The Mask. In 2002, his film The Scorpion King featured The Rock in his first leading role. Continue reading...

From Jean Harlow and James Dean through Simone Battle and Anton Yelchin, entertainment history is filled with instances of performers dying just as audiences

The University of Bologna has opened a new public library housing the personal book collection of writer Umberto Eco, a decade after his death.

In July, I’ll teach an introduction to humanities class for a group of soon-to-be high school seniors. A month later, I’ll teach a general education writing class to first-year college students, many ...

The studio that never reveals its secrets of success has opened its workflow to one of the world's largest AI companies.

Heads up: All of them are by scholars including women writing about things other than women!

K. Anthony Appiah, Paul Boghossian, Katherine Fleming, and Sean Wilentz on what’s gone wrong in the humanities.

Winner, 2026 Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies, American Association for Italian StudiesAgainst a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fanta... | CUP

When it comes to the history of American education, Clifton Hillegass has not gotten his due. In his decades-long career, Hillegass’s name graced the cover of hundreds of books, works that have sold t...

We spend our lives moving through passages, hallways, corridors and gangways, yet they do not feature in architectural histories, monographs or guidebooks. They are overlooked, undervalued and unregar...

Ahead of the release of Backrooms, we invite you to lose yourself in our list of the most terrifying – and most inviting – hallway scenes in cinema

Abstract. The manuscripts and notebooks of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) contain several thousand numerical notations, from verse line counts to records