Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Frustrated with the absence of positive representations of Black people in art, John Wilson responded by providing images of Black dignity while addressing the painful realities of racial prejudice.

WESTERLY, R.I. (WJAR) — A 98-year-old World War II Navy veteran can check off another life achievement-- publishing a book.

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

In the 1940s, a well-traveled artist by the name of Simon Michael settled in the small fishing town. He soon fostered a scene that endures to this day.

Clutch's graphic novel, “The Battle of Britain,” is available at the Virginia War Memorial’s gift shop, with the profits going to help other veterans.

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when Japan formally surrendered to the Allies and ended the horrors of World War II. Eight decades later, “Hold Strong,” a ...

A Canton McKinley student became a member of the famed all-Black Tuskegee Airmen World War II Army Air Force unit. Here's the ...

The story of the relationship between Hitler and Bernile had been generally unknown until the Alexander Historical Auction House auctioned this photograph to an anonymous, international buyer for a wi ...

The project has come to the aid of Leibl Rosenberg, an official representative of the Jewish community in Nuremberg, Germany, ...

Carol Becker is a writer, educator, and former dean of Columbia University School of the Arts and The School of the Art ...