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On a spring evening in 1995 visitors to the South Street Seaport at the lower end of Manhattan might have been forgiven for thinking they were back...

In his gripping new book, David Grann reveals the imperial rivalry and hubris that lay behind an 18th-century mutiny.

Philipp Winkler, the German writer who became a literary phenomenon for his novel ‘Hooligan,’ delves into the darkest corners of the internet in his second book, ‘Creep’

'The simple truth is not all of us become the men we once hoped we might be.'

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It all began in 1731 when Robert Jenkins, the captain of the Rebecca, had his ear sliced off by Juan de León Fandiño of the Spanish patrol boat La Isabela. Storming the British brig in the Caribbean, Fandiño accused Jenkins of smuggling sugar from Spanish colonies. He would cut King George’s ear off too, Fandiño

Journalist David Grann was rummaging through the electronic files of a British archive in 2016, researching one of his pet obsessions -- mutinies -- when he came across an astonishing tale.

The father of a 24-year-old Illinois woman who was caught laughing after she fatally mowed down two people asked online trolls to leave her alone -- saying she is suffering enough behind bars.

If walls could talk