Steve Coogan and the cast and crew behind charming new movie The Penguin Lessons share what they learned from being on set with a penguin.

The Village Voice looks at "phantom utopias," lies told by today's despots to conjure memories of great autocratic times that never existed.

The quest for the perfect cheesesteak outside the City of Brotherly Love often ends in disappointment, but this modest Virginia establishment defies the odds with every sizzling griddle flip. The blue ...

One of Russia’s most outspoken generals, sacked and detained after a withering attack on the Defense Ministry two years ago, is returning to the front, according to his lawyer.

On Tuesday, a Russian military court in the country's Far East sentenced Roman Ivanishin, a serviceman from Sakhalin who had been deployed with the 39th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade in ...

Also in today’s newsletter, EU explores legal options for ending Russian gas deals and UK consumers plan to ‘buy British’ ...

The young, dreamy twentysomethings who populated Summerhouse, Later (1998), Hermann’s first short-story collection, which became an international bestseller, are now firmly in middle age yet as ...

Many American universities, widely seen globally as beacons of academic integrity and free speech, are giving in to demands from the Trump administration, which has been targeting academia since it ...