In addition to a New Wave hit, Nell Dunn's 1963 book about young women in a poor London neighborhood inspired a Ken Loach adaption that helped shift British attitudes toward abortion.

Without formal training as an architect, Gray created magnificent designs that sensitively blended traditional craft with a modern aesthetic.

Galvanized by an act of racial violence, the band A Grain of Sand brought a new version of Asian American activism and identity to the folk music scene.

All (or at least a lot) of what you need to know before going to this year’s Academy Awards watch party.

Celebrated and damned as the “father of the atomic bomb,” theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer lived a complicated scientific and political life.

Writers have long plotted murder mysteries in gardens of all sorts. What makes these fertile grounds for detective fiction?

Viewing the genre as a means to spread modern knowledge, Chinese novelists have been writing science-fiction stories since at least 1902.

While Villa’s otherness created an opening for his work in the US, American critics ultimately held both his modernism and his nationality against him.

Neither the Bureau of Prisons nor the Production Code Administration could stop the production of a movie about murderer and ornithologist Robert Stroud.

When technology made music mobile, the American South changed from one type of bootlegging industry to another: copying and selling records.