One food site, for example, serves up a “French Kiss” vegan Valentine’s Day menu of vegetable soup with pesto, a vegetarian pâté sandwich, eggplant Florentine, and potatoes with lentils. This is ...

During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal ...

This year marks the quincentenary of the publication of First Voyage Around the World, 1519-1522: An Account of Ferdinand ...

Ros Schwartz’s translation of The Need for Roots makes Weil’s masterpiece feel as urgent today as it was in 1943.

Brigitte Giraud’s deeply autobiographical novel, “Live Fast,” earned one of France’s most prestigious literary prizes.

A rare, intimate picture of Baker emerges in her memoir, Fearless and Free, originally published in France in 1949 and now ...

Although it’s nearing its 25th anniversary, Libertine “still in many ways feels like this undiscovered little brand,” ...

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Prix Goncourt-winning novel “Live Fast,” Brigitte Giraud pieces together the motorcycle crash that killed the narrator’s ...

There’s a section titled “Concerning Violence” in Frantz Fanon’s anti-colonial masterwork The Wretched of the Earth where he ...