In “Battleship Yamato,” Jan Morris ponders the terrible beauty and irony of war as symbolized by the destruction of the Japanese Navy’s great vessel. They writers are among 24 people who ...

As a young reporter in 1953, Jan Morris was on the frozen mountainside as she chronicled Edmund Hillary’s historic ascent of ...

Born in England, writer Jan Morris embraced her father's Welsh identity to become a convinced nationalist. A successful author, she initially achieved fame as the newspaper reporter who broke the ...

Prolific travel writer, journalist, soldier and novelist Jan Morris has died aged 94. Morris wrote more than 40 books including a notable trilogy about Britain's empire, Pax Britannica ...

Richard Beck’s “Homeland” traces the far-reaching aftereffects of the attacks and tries to recover the events of the day, as ...

Venice is a third main character in this distinctive, eccentric, seductive romance. She is an art dealer, he is a tour guide.

When the Habsburg Empire collapsed, Trieste lost its raison d’etre. “But,” Jan Morris in Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere writes, “for the drifter, it is just right.” Morris ...

An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that Paul Johnson was convicted of assaulting Officer Caroline Edwards. He was convicted in another assault on police. The story also ...

by Jan Morris—who also wrote “Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere” (2001), the finest historical meditation written of a minor city. To this short and nonexhaustive list we can now add ...

RF Investment Partners, a provider of flexible growth capital, announced today its platform investment in Altro and Amici ...

The thing about kindness, for a start, is that everybody understands it. Everest has been violated by fame, profit, sectarian rivalry and national pride. It's time to return it to holiness.