L.A.-based novelist Mark Haskell Smith has written two books of nonfiction — “Heart of Dankness,” about cannabis farmers, and “Naked at Lunch,” about nudists. His latest is in one sense a departure, a ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

It’s unusual for a modern Greek audience to punctuate an ancient tragedy with applause. But in July, a production of Aeschylus’ “The Persians” by the National Theatre of Greece, presented in the ...

Writing her debut book, “Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives,” Amelia Possanza kept questioning why the stories of some people get a place in the history books, while others get lost to time. For ...

While people may view inscriptions in Greek or Latin as pretty, they still recognize their merit as text. Indeed, writings from ancient Greece and Rome are revered and considered classics of Western ...

Though the term manspreading is a recent addition to the personal-is-political feminist lexicon, the posture itself has a history that spans centuries and continents. Compare Michelangelo’s David, ...

A skull which was discovered by anthropologists in the Paliokastro area of Thasos, Greece, shows signs of complicated surgery ...