Colin Marshall

The term apocryphal may sound antiquated, but any reasonably serious reader encounters it fairly often, even in recently published texts.

If you had to pick a single figure to represent the concept of the film auteur, you could do much worse than Stanley Kubrick.

No matter how well you remember your physics classes, you most likely don't remember learning any stories in them.

The ill-fated romance of Abelard and Héloïse may be a permanent cultural fixture, but it's worth asking what any of us understand about Abelard or Héloïse themselves.

Much of the world got to know Carl Sagan through Cosmos: A Personal Voyage , the thirteen-part PBS series on the nature of the universe — and the intensity of Sagan's own passion to discover that nature.

Boys and girls are emerging from every level of school with certificates and degrees, but they can't read, write or calculate.

Every four years, humanity undergoes a great increase in its number of soccer fans — or rather, football fans, depending on what part of the world we're talking about.

If you want to read a book about cities, you still can't do much better than a slim, plotless work of fiction by Italo Calvino wherein the explorer

At one time or another, we all feel twinges of anxiety about what will constitute the legacy we leave behind.

When he first spent time in Japanese cities, urban design and history professor Barrie Shelton “was baffled, irritated, and even intimidated by what I saw.