By Nadifa Mohamed New Historical Fiction: Witch Hunts, Wartime and Mysterious Murders Inspired by the true story of the first woman condemned as a witch in medieval Ireland, “Bright I Burn ...

The best short stories are indisputable proof ... but these are not the traditional war stories told in historical fiction. The author, who based this 1990 book on his own service in Vietnam ...

There’s a reason we’re drawn to the past. History is inescapable. Decisions are made on the back of past events, and lives are affected by the stories of those that came before us. Historical fiction ...

Nothing gets kids excited about history like a gripping story. Times, people, and places that might seem dull or far away in a textbook come to living, breathing life in historical novels like the ...

Each creature is introduced, in both Irish and English, by way of their historical context, followed by a short story that illustrates the power of their mythic mischief in action. Did you know ...

Provided that such reconstructions are compatible with the evidence, they can deepen historical understanding in ways not available to the historian ... Jesse Norman’s The Winding Stair (2023), the ...

There are so many reasons to love short stories; not least their ability to immerse us in new worlds in the time it takes to commute to work, or the common themes that weave through anthologies to ...

The author reads her story from the July 29, 2024, issue of the magazine.

You can finally read this Ernest Hemingway story about Paris after WWII In 1956, Ernest Hemingway wrote to his publisher about five short stories he had written: “You can always publish them ...

The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Third and Final Continent,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1999.