Charles Dickens, a renowned Victorian author, explored human nature's tendency to undervalue present blessings. His quote ...

Dickens’s 'Hard Times' feels newly urgent as a classic reply to hustle culture, exposing how facts, work and usefulness can crush imagination, tenderness and human worth today too easily now.

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The world’s most valuable assets are stored on rows of servers in giant, anonymous buildings. And they can be stolen.

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Tyler Herro ends Heat tenure in a strange way that mirrored his time here in one respect.

In 1996, Kermit the Frog donned the captain's hat as Captain Abraham Smollett in Muppet Treasure Island, hopping through the air like a swashbuckling amphibious Jack Sparrow with Muppet jaw protruded ...

Americans may have won independence 250 years ago, but they have never stopped caring what the Brits think of them.

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly ...

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A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth," centers around the enigmatic life and death of 19-year-old Zac Brettler.

June's best books include an Irish saga by Maggie O'Farrell, a gritty memoir by Ralph Jackman and a comic Italian romp by Andrew Sean Greer.