A hundred feet below Westminster, dozens of workmen are laying tracks along two new tube tunnels that stretch under the Thames, across to County Hall, and beyond to Canary Wharf and Greenwich. Close by, dozens more are busily transforming an extraordinary cavern into the...

i It was a landscape full of itself: disfigured arches that long ago might have been an aqueduct, a moss-covered canal or two, the local birds too few, really, to work up a philosophy. The villages could muster a...

A woman who won $1 million from a state lottery game four years ago has improbably hit the jackpot again. Valerie Wilson, who works at a Long Island deli, said she won another $1 million on a lottery scratch-off game...

In 19th-century Europe, there was scarcely a dull moment.Revolutions, wars and advancements such as rail and steamship travel roiled the Continent.Imperial boundaries were drawn and redrawn.Dance halls overflowed with patrons seeking the latest craze.Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-99) was uniquely suited to his dynamic age. Born...

In the following interview, Walker touches on the differences between writers of the Harlem Renaissance and the protest writers of the 1930s, her relationship with Richard Wright and her copyright disputes with the Wright estate, writer Alex Haley, and the origins of Jubilee.

In the following chapter from her full-length study of Jubilee, Carmichael discusses recent critical re-evaluation of the novel and a brief history of critical trends in relation to Walker's work.