This summer’s edition of The Dickens Universe - a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, ...

Tom Rachman: “I consider myself a realist – with a sprinkling of nostalgia” Pulitzer Prize-winner JR Moehringer talks Dickens, journalism, bookstores with "Rise & Fall of Great Powers" author ...

In honor of Audiobook Appreciation Month, here are seven outstanding recent titles to accompany long Seattle summer days.

Realism Returns: The Resurgence of Traditional Art Skills in the Digital Age The resurgence of representational art reflects a renewed cultural hunger for technical skill, emotion and tangible ...

Around the same time that realism was gaining popularity as a countermovement, naturalism also began to take shape. It took influence from the then-recent studies of evolution by Charles Darwin to ...

Dickens (1812-70) was a busy man whose brain was crammed and active. Rapid, peripatetic movement gave him relief from the pressure of his roiling thoughts.

Electrifying everything comes with plenty of risks of its own.

The Bleak, Defeatist Rise of “Climate Realism” It’s not just the Trump administration. Bankers, centrist Democrats, and others are embracing the idea that climate targets were never ...

The future of American foreign policy is realism. It isn’t a new concept, but has been practiced since the dawn of our very country. Washington and Hamilton backed John Jay’s treaty, which was ...

I don’t think anything can prepare you for Adolescence ’s almost forensic lack of artifice; its uncompromising, miserable realism; and as a result, the utter bleakness of its sense of accuracy.

The Trump Regime’s Climate “Realism” Is Even Worse Than It Sounds The new energy secretary says climate disasters are just the price you pay for “building the modern world.” A startling ...