William Shakespeare wrote ‘King Lear,’ ‘Macbeth,’ and ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ as London reeled from the foiled 1605 Gunpowder ...

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Wild Dark Shore. By Charlotte McConaghy. Flatiron Books; 320 pages; $28.99. Castle Point Books; £24.99 Dominic Salt lives on ...

Framing his work in elemental terms of self-sufficiency, Shepard considered his analog tools: “When you go to ride a horse, ...

When it comes to classic Western television shows, they all have some sort of gimmick. Whether following an Old West lawman ...

The legendary Clint Eastwood spent much of the ‘70s dominating the big screen with gritty, oftentimes cynical blockbuster ...

His erudite libertarianism made him a fixture of Boston media for decades. Newly unearthed correspondence with his mentor ...

The belief that his son’s death inspired Shakespeare to write Hamlet is itself inspired by an enduring, compelling, and highly questionable theory.