In recovering the cultural legacy of the Depression era, Doctorow has produced a book that promises to remain as permanent an addition to its culture as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

What defense can there be, then, against the awful forces that have now been unleashed with the utter terror of the atomic bomb?

Father Ferlita died in February.

Even nowadays—or should I say especially nowadays?—the sight of two people very much in love still delights us. The world continues to love and make excuses for lovers. A truly great love story will fill the cinemas and top the list of best-sellers. Yet the modern world has come to belie

Time has accomplished what a U.S.-supported invasion, a crushing economic embargo, the collapse of the Soviet Union and any number of external and internal catastrophes could not: the removal of Fidel Castro from direct control over the people of Cuba. Suffering from failing health, Castro has final

Vantage Point 1989: 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a look back at the editors' take on 'the momentous implications of Nov. 9.'