Directed by Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, the Toronto-premiering film explores the ethics and toll of a particularly demanding career.

This frighteningly perceptive and well-written biography of UN secretary general, Burmese Buddhist U Thant, details his ...

One of this collection’s great charms is Patrick Cotter’s trademark use of the absurd to tackle serious, or mock-serious, ...

A New History of the World at War: 1914” details how colonial powers sought land grabs and new weaponry gave them increased ...

One of the best and highest-rated war movies ever made (that, sadly, almost nobody saw in theaters) has now arrived on streaming. Stories set during war, whether that be World War II or more recent ...

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Plus Angela Flournoy’s “The Wilderness.” ...

It took less than three hours with Vladmir Putin for Donald Trump to show the world why he’s earned the sobriquet TACO, or Trump Always Chickens Out.

Stylistically, Afyan’s prose possesses a certain Hemingwayesque quality, composed as it is of largely declarative sentences, ...

This is no Hardyesque tale of destiny inescapable, but rather of pity for needless waste, and admiration for lives filled ...

She escaped the siege of Leningrad, became a curator at the Hermitage and later met her future husband at the Venice Biennale.

Author David Wyatt explores this sometimes winding road to publication in “Afterlife: The Strange Fate of Literary Remains.” ...