The scholar of nationalism and author of ‘Imagined Communities’ has died at the age of 79.

Before the eighteenth century, most pictures didn’t have titles. The public gallery changed everything.

‘In the Heart of the Sea’ may be based on a true story, but it remains obsessed with ‘Moby-Dick.’

There’s no long any room in the gun-control debate for nuance. Eliminate guns, and we’ll eliminate the carnage.

They dominated film, television, and literature—and there's no end to the hold they have on the entertainment industry.

Immerse yourself in a huge novel and you will start to find its timeline competing with the plot of your daily life.

Hannah Rothschild’s new novel, told from the point of view of a Watteau painting, skewers the art world.