Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest on the fifth of September, 1905, and by the time he died in London seventy-seven years later he had produced one of the strangest and most consequential literary lives…
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Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was written in an unusual way—hand in hand with the film it accompanies. Beginning in 1964 from Clarke’s 1948 short story “The Sentinel,” Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick…
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Meet Fox News Channel’s Chief Breaking News Correspondent Trace Gallagher at an exclusive book signing event celebrating the launch of his highly anticipated new book, Turns Out They Were Right All Along: Life Lessons I…
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Carl Sagan (1934–1996) was the most influential science communicator of the twentieth century—an astronomer and planetary scientist who did more than perhaps anyone to bring the wonder of the cosmos to a popular audience. A…
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Today marks the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima—an event that profoundly shaped the course of modern history. The use of nuclear weapons brought World War II to an end but also introduced…
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Few poets reshaped American literature as profoundly as Allen Ginsberg. When his Howl and Other Poems appeared in 1956, it broke open the polished, buttoned-down verse of the era with a raw, chanting, confessional voice…
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