From novels by James Baldwin and Han Kang to a guide to quantum physics – a former Booker prize judge recommends immersive one-sitting wonders ...

No man is an island, entire of itself” goes the book’s epigraph by the poet John Donne. Like it or not, we are intricately ...

Failing cultures obsess over food. Thriving cultures conquer. Failing cultures open restaurants. Thriving cultures open ...

Failing cultures obsess over food. Thriving cultures conquer. Failing cultures open restaurants. Thriving cultures open institutions. If all a people can talk about is food, they have become detached ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

Courtesy: National Heritage Museum, Lexington, MA. Though they worked in close proximity for years, Alexander Hamilton and George Washington never became close friends; different positions and ...

This Founding Father came to America alone at age 15. He fought at Washington's side in the Revolution, helped ensure the ratification of the Constitution, and saved the fledgling United States from ...

One of the most important of Alexander Hamilton's many contributions to the emerging American economy was his successful advocacy for the creation of a national bank. But the Bank of the United States ...

Find out more about the character of founding father Alexander Hamilton, and see aspects of the astute mind behind the face on the ten dollar bill. Hamilton was a foreigner with a different ...