History is replete with moments so ingrained in popular culture that most people simply assume they must be true. But many of ...

Some historical events are self-evidently a pretty big deal. The kind of happenings you don’t need context and a broad understanding of history to know sent shockwaves through the world. Sometimes ...

The Once Upon a Time World. By Jonathan Miles. Pegasus Books; 464 pages; $29.95. Atlantic Books; £22 In the summer of 1922 Gerald Murphy, an American artist and collaborator with Sergei Diaghilev on ...