Hell’s Kitchen was renamed in 1959, but Clinton didn’t really stick. Clearly these are no names for the utopia that some of our most committed urbanists have started to envisage on the Far West Side.

An angel appeared, and wrapped its wings around her. McCarthy bounced off the asphalt, her helmet saving her life. The ...

William Peter Blatty was pounding out the first pages of "The Exorcist" when his telephone rang – bringing the news that his mother had died. The screenwriter was already digging into dark material ...

Historian Amanda Foreman searches the past for the origins of today’s world. Read previous columns here. What is hell? For Plato, it was Tartarus, the lowest level of Hades where those who had sinned ...

In Farah Mendlesohn's roundup of sf titles (Book World, June 30), the publisher of 'City of Saints and Madmen' by Jeff VanderMeer should have been cited as Prime. The publisher of 'Leviathan 3' is ...

While reading Dana Milbank’s commentary (June 6, Sentinel Opinion), I had visions of Joseph Goebbels and Joseph McCarthy laughing somewhere in the lowest level of Dante’s hell. Today’s Republicans ...