Geniuses occupy plenty of space in our history books, but as it turns out, many of them were more than a little — well, eccentric. As Katie Spalding reveals in “Edison’s Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness ...

DOCTOR FAUSTUS (510 pp.)—Thomas Mann—Knopf ($3.50). In a poll of the world’s literary critics, Nobel Prizewinner Thomas Mann would probably win the nomination as the greatest living novelist. He would ...

Throughout history, a disproportionate share of legends and stories have been about military leaders who defied the odds and used their genius to secure victory. From those early stories, through ...

Dr. Jeffrey Ogbonna Green Ogbar is a history professor and the director of the Center for the Study of Popular Music at the University of Connecticut. He offered a lecture on the genius of hip-hop to ...

What makes someone a genius? Are they the smartest, most creative, most innovative people? Those with the highest IQ? Who we consider a genius may actually tell us much more about what we value as a ...