The American writer’s symbolic yet vividly rendered story depicts a maker of small objects of ‘delicate ingenuity’ whose ...

A scammer rang me the other day and said, “I have all your passwords.” “Good”, I replied. “Let me get a pen and paper and you ...

That was Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1843 warning against the replacement of the open fireplace by the iron stove. Dancing, comic books, television and even the novel were supposed to corrupt and ...