The Great Man Theory: A Novel; By Teddy Wayne; Bloomsbury Publishing; 320 pp., $26.49 No, our antihero is someone for whom life hasn’t exactly worked out. Paul is a crotchety writer with no reputation ...

Meet Paul, the protagonist of Teddy Wayne’s bland, static new work, “The Great Man Theory.” At age 46, he’s published longform essays on esoteric topics while holding down a job as a writing lecturer ...

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The figure of Napoleon has long been an object of fascination, but the new Ridley Scott biopic makes one wonder why. The film, perhaps inadvertently, partakes of the spirit of the times. The so-called ...

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The Trump administration is currently attempting to rewrite American history by whitewashing the country’s negative legacy and scrubbing out references to anything connected to multiculturalism or ...

In April 1954, James Beard flew from his home in New York to San Francisco and set out on a culinary road trip across the western U.S. The prolific cookbook author was about to turn 51, and feeling ...