Len Deighton, a British author known for his spy novels including “The Ipcress File,” “Funeral in Berlin” and “The ...

The British author, Len Deighton, who was best known for his spy novels, has died at the age of 97. Perhaps his most famous work, 1962's The Ipcress File was turned into a Bafta-winning film starring ...

To celebrate the Oscars 2026, I'm picking out the greatest Best Picture-winning movies from each decade from the 1920s to the 2020s.

Japanese atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori has died at age 88. Mori was a historian and best known for a big hug he was ...

Born from the B-24’s wartime legacy, the PB4Y-2 Privateer became something far more dangerous in the early Cold War: a ...

The 1960s were a wild time for the CIA. When they weren’t dosing each other with acid or trying to use exploding cigars to kill Fidel Castro, the Agency’s staff were exploring other novel approaches ...

The discovery caused officials to evacuate 18,000 people on Wednesday, the largest such operation ever in the city, emergency services said.

In the spring of 1960 a 31-year-old former chef and flight attendant called Len Deighton got in touch with the Daily Express to pitch an idea he called the ‘cookstrip’. It had come about because he ...

The stars who made Hannibal Lecter, Atticus Finch, Daniel Plainview, and more into unforgettable movie characters.

Few Cold War research programs looked less like engineering and more like folklore than the U.S. government’s search for psychic spies. Yet the effort was real, funded, documented, and sustained for ...

The Bookplate is proud to announce a new author event in town featuring author and former C.V. Starr Center scholar Wil ...

A deep dive into some of the issues involved in the Golden Age Good Girl Comic Book Facsimile Collection Kickstarter, starting with Phantom Lady #17.