Hell’s Kitchen was renamed in 1959, but Clinton didn’t really stick. Clearly these are no names for the utopia that some of our most committed urbanists have started to envisage on the Far West Side.

What prompted the idea for the course? When Meghan R. Henning, a scholar of early Christianity, completed her 2014 book on how the concept of hell evolved in the early Christian church, she wanted to ...

William Peter Blatty was pounding out the first pages of "The Exorcist" when his telephone rang – bringing the news that his mother had died. The screenwriter was already digging into dark material ...

In Farah Mendlesohn's roundup of sf titles (Book World, June 30), the publisher of 'City of Saints and Madmen' by Jeff VanderMeer should have been cited as Prime. The publisher of 'Leviathan 3' is ...

Historian Amanda Foreman searches the past for the origins of today’s world. Read previous columns here. What is hell? For Plato, it was Tartarus, the lowest level of Hades where those who had sinned ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. Police described sticky substances that mail carrier ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. The course begins with the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.