In 1874, Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, a 17-year-old orphan, persuaded his uncle to allow him to join the French merchant marine. After promising never to forget that “wherever you may sail, you ...

What happens to people who take the losing side in a revolution or a civil war? In this ambitious, empathetic and sometimes lyrical book, Maya Jasanoff tells the story of the Loyalist exiles of the ...

When the National Book Critics Circle, where I serve as a board member, narrowed its list of best 2011 books last weekend, I was glad to note that The Plain Dealer had covered four of the five ...

Walk into your local bookstore and you’re guaranteed access to a nearly endless array of candy-gloss covers, neatly arranged by genre and glinting enticingly from soaring shelves. For most, the ...

Loyalists and the American Revolution. For Christians, there has always been a nagging question about whether the American Revolution was morally legitimate, given biblical admonitions to support the ...

‘Crisses Cryssis Crises Crisis’, Grace Galloway scratched at the bottom of the page. She might not have known how to spell it, but she certainly knew what crisis felt like when she wrote about it in ...

Maya Jasanoff, a history professor at Harvard University, has won a $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction. The prize is given annually to eight individual writers in fiction, nonfiction, ...

“Tucked away in the lanes of Old Delhi, not far from the Red Fort of the Mughal emperors, sits the little visited Anglican church of St James, consecrated in 1836. With its Renaissance-style dome and ...