Devotees and scholars of pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard returned to his hometown to celebrate a legacy extending beyond ...

I hadn’t read John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” for 50 years, until now. In it, the Joad family is forced to leave Oklahoma with hundreds of thousands of others during ...

His go-to classic is by Joseph Campbell, and he admires “Brothers and Keepers” and “The New Jim Crow” on incarceration. “The River Is Waiting” is his new novel.

John C. Reilly attends the closing ceremony red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival in May. The actor-singer brings his concert tour to Chicago in the fall.

Let’s zoom out: I feel like I’m on pretty firm ground when I say that as a civilization, we enjoy beverages with grapes (see: grape juice for children, grape soda for teenagers, and for adults ...

He points to ones we are walking past. They’re 700,000 litres. “Our biggest tanks are 1.5 million litres.” The facilities where trucks used to dump grapes to be made into wine now sit idle.

In a paper published today in the journal PNAS, an international team of archaeologists has conclusively shown what all those grapes were for. The people living at Gadachrili Gora and a nearby ...