Harper Lee scrupulously avoided public attention for decades, a reticence that made the media circus surrounding her final months all the more remarkable. In 2015, “Go Set a Watchman” appeared, billed ...

In 2003, the American Film Institute made public a list of the most memorable heroes and villains in movie-dom. As the countdown unfolded as part of a TV special, highlights included actors’ ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Joseph Crespino is the Jimmy Carter Professor of history at Emory University. He is the author of "In Search of Another Country," winner of the 2008 Lillian Smith Book Award from the Southern Regional ...

This shocking debut exposé from environmental lawyer Civiletto details more than a century of the electrochemical industry’s poisoning of Niagara Falls, N.Y. Born and raised in Continue reading » Man ...

Last week on Facebook, a friend declared she will now abandon plans to name any future son of hers Atticus. She is not alone among fans of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), including ...

In 1964, Harper Lee, famously reticent, gave her last interview. Half a decade later, Crespino turns to the most important stuff of his subjects’ lives to give his nuanced accounting: their written ...