Pharaoh’s daughter’s coming down and seeing a baby crying is mirrored by God’s actions in Exodus’ third chapter.

In the Bible's Old Testament, the Ark of the Covenant is linked to several miracles, such as protecting the Israelites from poisonous animals during their Exodus out of Egypt, stopping the flow of the ...

There will be some questions on Winchelsea but the quiz will rapidly spiral into many directions. This year the eight rounds ...

Buddhist author Christmas Humphreys states in his book Buddhism (Penguin 1962): Before the seventh ... such as the writings of non-Christians (Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius and Pliny the Younger) and ...

A new memoir by the tech mogul recounts a boyhood steeped in old-fashioned, analog pastimes as well as precocious feats of coding. By Jennifer Szalai It’s among the more playful matters on his ...

To celebrate his retirement this month, Albert J. Elen, senior curator for Drawing and Prints at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, is donating an impressive drawing by the Dutch artist Josephus Augustus ...

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It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

The latest book in the phenomenally popular romance-fantasy Empyrean Series finds Violet Sorrengail leaving Basgiath War College, where she’s been studying to be a dragon rider, and venturing ...

George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time. Our critic A.O. Scott shows you what he loves about it. By A.O ...

In his latest book Dr Rangan Chatterjee teaches you how to smash the bad habits steering you straight towards burnout. Gripping tale of the lines on which espionage meets the Vatican's priests.

“Shattered” recounts the experience and its aftermath. In his new book “Everything Must Go,” Dorian Lynskey recounts two millennia of apocalyptic predictions. Amazingly, it’s not depressin ...