The Philippines had a world champion boxer before Manny Pacquiao — and his name was Francisco “Pancho Villa” Guilledo.

A reporter’s essential reading list on Buddhism in Asia. By Aatish Taseer The T writer at large Aatish Taseer spent some ...

Historian H.W. Brands has written more than 30 books about American history, highlighting prominent figures ranging from the era of the Revolutionary War to the presidency of Ronald Reagan. He’ll be ...

Theodore Geisel, Class of 1925, is a Dartmouth alumnus whose children’s books and campus namesake sit alongside racist ...

Zoya Boguslavskaya, a Soviet and Russian writer, playwright, literary critic, widow of poet Andrei Voznesensky, and winner of ...

This biography by Probal Dasgupta traces the life and times of one of India’s most charismatic yet forgotten army chiefs.

Seventeen years ago, Khalil Guliwala, an Indian man from Dubai, arrived in Montreal to study at McGill University and met ...

For more than half a century, Paul McCartney has occupied a unique place in popular culture. He is simultaneously viewed as ...

Sylvia Barbara Soberton's latest book challenges the perception of Anne Boleyn's sister as "promiscuous, intellectually ...

Also, today I’m introducing a new feature you’ll see in The Amplifier every so often: The Amplifier Quiz! Test your knowledge ...

Booze, blues, bust-ups, sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. When it comes to the Rolling Stones, all these things are a given. But ...

“Albanianism,” wrote the 19th-century poet Pashko Vasa, was his country’s one true faith. Not many outsiders will get the ...